Maxomys hellwaldii

Maxomys hellwaldii (Jentink, 1878). Notes Leyden Mus., 1:11. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Sulawesi, NE peninsula, Menado. DISTRIBUTION: Throughout Sulawesi in tropical lowland evergreen rain forest (Musser and Holden, 1991). SYNONYMS: cereus, griseogenys, localis. COMMENTS: Among Sulawesian representatives of Maxomys, M. hellwaldii is most closely related to M. dollmani (Musser, 1991). Spermatozoal morphology was unlike species of Malayan Maxomys studied, and more similar to species of Margaretamys, another Sulawesian endemic (Breed and Musser, 1991).Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 612, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735309