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Red spiny rat
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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. In China, it has been recorded only in southernmost Yunnan.

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 9781400834112.

• 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.

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