Sumatran Spiny Rat

Sumatran Spiny Rat
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Maxomys
Species:	M. hylomyoides
Binomial name
Maxomys hylomyoides (Robinson & Kloss, 1916)

The Sumatran Spiny Rat (Maxomys hylomyoides) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Indonesia.

References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Maxomys hylomyoides. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
• Musser, Guy G.; Carleton, Michael D. (16 November 2005). "Superfamily Muroidea (pp. 894-1531)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3.