Mount Dulit is a mountain in

Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and ea ...

. It peaks at above sea level and stands at the head of the

Baram River The Baram River ( ms, Sungai Baram) is a river in Sarawak on the island of Borneo. The river originates in the Kelabit Highlands, a watershed demarcated by the Iran Mountains of East Kalimantan, which form a natural border with Sarawak. The riv ...

in northern

Sarawak Sarawak (; ) is a state of Malaysia. The largest among the 13 states, with an area almost equal to that of Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak is located in northwest Borneo Island, and is bordered by the Malaysian state of Sabah to the northeast, ...

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

. It is a western outlier of the Bornean cordillera and is largely covered with

tropical The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator. They are defined in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere at N and the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...

rainforest. It has given its name to various plants and animals including the

Dulit frogmouth The Dulit frogmouth (''Batrachostomus harterti'') is a little-known species of bird in the frogmouth family, Podargidae, with a patchily recorded distribution in the mountain forests of northern and central Borneo to which it is endemic. The spe ...

(''Batrachostomus harterti''), Dulit partridge (''Rhizothera dulitensis''), the frog '' Rhacophorus dulitensis'', the

caecilian Caecilians (; ) are a group of limbless, vermiform or serpentine amphibians. They mostly live hidden in the ground and in stream substrates, making them the least familiar order of amphibians. Caecilians are mostly distributed in the tropics o ...

'' Ichthyophis dulitensis'', the trilobite beetle genus ''

Duliticola ''Platerodrilus'' is a genus of beetles of the family Lycidae. They commonly appear in the literature under the name ''Duliticola'', which is an obsolete junior synonym. The females retain a larval form as adults (larviform females) and are abou ...

'' and the ''

Vatica dulitensis ''Vatica dulitensis'' is a tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae, native to Borneo. It is named for Mount Dulit in Sarawak. Description ''Vatica dulitensis'' grows up to tall, with a trunk diameter of up to . Its obovate to lanceolate leaves meas ...

'' tree. It is the site from which

Charles Hose Charles Hose FRGS. FLS (12 October 1863 – 14 November 1929) was a British colonial administrator, zoologist and ethnologist. Life and career He was born in Hertfordshire, England, and was educated at Felsted in Essex. Admitted to Clare Colleg ...

collected the

holotype A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of sever ...

specimen of the rare and elusive

Hose's palm civet Hose's palm civet (''Diplogale hosei''), also known as Hose's civet, is a viverrid species endemic to the island of Borneo. It is listed on the IUCN Red List as Vulnerable because of an ongoing population decline, estimated to be more than 30% ...

(''Diplogale hosei'') in 1891.

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