Red Spiny Rat

Red Spiny Rat
Red Spiny Rat
Conservation status
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) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam.

References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Maxomys surifer. 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.