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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Maxomys
SPECIES Maxomys wattsi
| Author: | Musser, 1991. | | Citation: | Am. Mus. Novit., 3001: 20. | | Common Name: | Watts’s Sulawesi Maxomys | | Type Locality: | Indonesia, C Sulawesi, Gunung Tambusisi, Tambusisi Damar, 4700 ft (1432 m). | | Distribution: | Known only from 4700-6000 ft (1432-1830 m) on Gunung Tambusisi, C Sulawesi. | | Status: | IUCN – Endangered. | | Comments: | A distinctive species that is morphologically isolated from all other Sulawesian Maxomys except possibly M. musschenbroekii; assessing its phylogenetic relations to other species in the genus will require systematic revision of Maxomys (Musser, 1991). |
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