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Mountain spiny rat

species of mammal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ1761971 ↗
Source-derived summary

The mountain spiny rat (Maxomys alticola) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

It is found only in Malaysia.

References

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. 1368. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mountain spiny rat” is species of mammal. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mountain, spiny and species, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 1368—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Mountain, spiny and species is the immediate research focus.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1761971. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005 and 1368.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mountain spiny rat” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.