Red spiny rat

Red spiny rat
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Maxomys
Species:	M. surifer
Binomial name
Maxomys surifer (Miller, 1900)

The red spiny rat (Maxomys surifer), also known as the Indomalayan maxomys, is a rodent species in the family Muridae that inhabits forests in Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and on the islands of Java, Borneo and Sumatra. ^[1] In China, it has been recorded only in southernmost Yunnan. ^[2]

References

1. Aplin, K. (2016). "Maxomys surifer". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T12905A22455389. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T12905A22455389.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
2. Lunde, D.; Smith, A.T.; Hoffmann, R. S. (2008). "Indomalayan Maxomys". In Smith, A. T.; Xie, Y. (eds.). A Guide to the Mammals of China. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. 262. ISBN   978-1-4008-3411-2.

• Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1372. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.