Maxomys surifer (Miller, 1900)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 613-614

Maxomys surifer (Miller, 1900) . Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 13:148.

TYPE LOCALITY: Peninsular Thailand, Trang .

DISTRIBUTION: Indochina (S Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam) and the Sunda Shelf (Peninsular Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and many smaller islands).

SYNONYMS: anambae , antucus, aoris, banacus, bandahara, bentincanus , binominatus, butangensis, casensis , carimatae , catellifer , changensis, connectens , domelicus , eclipsis, flavidulus, flavigrandis, finis, grandis , koratis, krantis, kutensis, leonis , luteolus , mabalus, manicalis, microdon , muntia, natunae, pelagius, pemangilis, perflavus , pidonis, pinacus, puket, ravus , saturatus , serutus , siarma, solaris, spurcus, telibon, tenebrosus, ubecus , umbridorsum , verbeeki.

COMMENTS: The only species of Maxomys with a range encompassing Indochinese and Sundaic faunal regions. The two groups of samples differ in morphological features, and the significance of this variation should be determined in a careful systematic revision of the genus. Berylmys bowersii , Chiropodomys gliroides , Leopoldamys sabanus , and L. edwardsi have roughly concordant geographic ranges and demonstrate similar geographic variation (Musser et al., 1979; Musser and Newcomb, 1983). Comparative spermatozoal morphology documented by Breed and Yong (1986), chromosomal and biochemical data summarized by Chan et al. (1979) in phylogenetic context.