Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Guy G. Musser Author Michael D. Carleton text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 501 755 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098 1-56098-217-9 7353098 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 ).