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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Maxomys
SPECIES Maxomys inas
| Author: | Bonhote, 1906. | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1906: 9. | | Common Name: | Malayan Mountain Maxomys | | Type Locality: | Malaysia, Perak (Malay Peninsula), Gunung Inas. | | Distribution: | Endemic of Malay Peninsula (and possibly peninsular Thailand south of Isthmus of Kra) in montane forests, rarely occurring below 3000 ft (914 m; Medway, 1969). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Once treated as a subspecies of Bornean M. alticola (Chasen, 1940), but identified as a separate species by Medway (1964). A close phylogenetic ally to M. whiteheadi, as indicated by morphological, biochemical, chromosomal, and spermatozoal traits (Breed and Yong, 1986; Chan et al., 1978, 1979; Yong, 1969). Maxomys inas joins Niviventer cameroni and Pithecheir parvus as the three living endemic murines on the Malay Peninsula south of the Isthmus of Kra (Musser, 1986; see account of Niviventer cameroni). |
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