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Mount Dulit

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Mount Dulit
From the Tinjar River, 1912
Highest point
Elevation1,311 m (4,301 ft)
Coordinates3°20′N 114°09′E / 3.333°N 114.150°E / 3.333; 114.150
Geography
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LocationSarawak, Borneo

Mount Dulit is a mountain in Borneo. It peaks at 1,311 metres (4,301 ft) above sea level and stands at the head of the Baram River in northern Sarawak, Malaysia. It is a western outlier of the Bornean cordillera and is largely covered with montane tropical rainforest. It has given its name to various plants and animals including the Dulit frogmouth (Batrachostomus harterti), Dulit partridge (Rhizothera dulitensis), the frog Rhacophorus dulitensis, the caecilian Ichthyophis dulitensis, the trilobite beetle genus Duliticola and the Vatica dulitensis tree. It is the site from which Charles Hose collected the holotype specimen of the rare and elusive Hose's palm civet (Diplogale hosei) in 1891.

References

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  • "Birds of Sarawak". Gregory-Smith, Richard. ARBEC. Archived from the original on 2010-04-05. Retrieved 2010-09-15.
  • Richards, P.W. (1936). "Ecological observations on the rain forest of Mount Dulit, Sarawak". Journal of Ecology. 24 (1): 1–37. doi:10.2307/2256268. JSTOR 2256268.
  • Thomas, Oldfield (March 1892). "On some Mammals from Mount Dulit, North Borneo". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 60 (2): 221–227. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1892.tb06828.x.