Red spiny rat

{{Short description|Species of rodent}}

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| name = Red spiny rat

| image = Tikus merah.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Aplin, K. |date=2016 |title=Maxomys surifer |volume=2016 |page=e.T12905A22455389 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T12905A22455389.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

| genus = Maxomys

| species = surifer

| authority = (Miller, 1900)

| synonyms =

| range_map = Range_Maxomys_surifer.png

}}

The red spiny rat (Maxomys surifer), also known as the Indomalayan maxomys, is a rodent species in the family Muridae that inhabits forests in Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and on the islands of Java, Borneo and Sumatra. In China, it has been recorded only in southernmost Yunnan.{{cite book |author1=Lunde, D. |author2=Smith, A.T. |author3=Hoffmann, R. S. |year=2008 |title=A Guide to the Mammals of China |location=Princeton |publisher=Princeton University Press |chapter=Indomalayan Maxomys |page=262 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ka-9f68nPT4C&pg=PA262 |editor1-last=Smith |editor1-first=A. T. |editor2-last=Xie |editor2-first=Y. |isbn=9781400834112}}