Mountain Spiny Rat

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Mountain Spiny Rat
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Maxomys Species: M. alticola
Binomial name
Maxomys alticola (Thomas, 1888)

The Mountain Spiny Rat (Maxomys alticola) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found only in Malaysia.

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Maxomys alticola. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
• Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.