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--> GENUS Maxomys
SPECIES Maxomys rajah
| Author: | Thomas, 1894. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 14: 451. | | Common Name: | Rajah Sundaic Maxomys | | Type Locality: | Malaysia, Sarawak (N Borneo), Gunung Batu Song. | | Distribution: | Endemic to the Sunda Shelf; Peninsular Thailand south of Isthmus of Kra, Malay Peninsula, Riau Arch., Sumatra, amd Borneo; absent from Java and Bali. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Insular distribution similar in broad outline to that of M. whiteheadi. Once regarded as conspecific with M. surifer (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Misonne, 1969), but occurs sympatrically with that species, and although samples of each are regularly misidentified, the two differ in a suite of morphological, ecological, behavioral, and biochemical traits, as well as albumin immunology (Chan et al., 1979; Corbet and Hill, 1992; Musser et al., 1979; Yong, 1972; Watts and Baverstock, 1994b). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
hidongis (Kloss, 1921)
lingensis (Miller, 1900)
pellax (Miller, 1900)
similis (Robinson and Kloss, 1916)
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