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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Maxomys
SPECIES Maxomys ochraceiventer
| Author: | Thomas, 1894. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 14: 451. | | Common Name: | Ochraceous-bellied Bornean Maxomys | | Type Locality: | Malaysia, Sabah (N Borneo), Gunung Kinabalu, below 1700 m (Md Nor, 2001). | | Distribution: | Sabah and Sarawak (N Borneo), and East Kalimantan (E Borneo); apparently restricted to hills (Medway, 1964). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Once treated as a lower altitudinal subspecies of the higher montane M. alticola on Borneo (Chasen, 1940), but the two species are sympatric at 1067 m on slopes of Gunung Kinabalu (Medway, 1977). Reviewed by Corbet and Hill (1992). Member of the cluster of murine species endemic to Borneo (Musser, 1986; also see account of Chiropodomys major). |
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