Mount Dulit is a mountain in Borneo

Borneo

Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java Island, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia....

. It peaks at 1311 m above sea level and stands at the head of the Baram River

Baram River

The Baram river is a river in Sarawak, East Malaysia on the island of Borneo. The river originates in the central Iran Mountains and flows westwards through tropical rainforest to the South China Sea....

 in northern Sarawak

Sarawak

Sarawak is one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo. Known as Bumi Kenyalang , Sarawak is situated on the north-west of the island. It is the largest state in Malaysia followed by Sabah, the second largest state located to the North- East.The administrative capital is Kuching, which...

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

Tropics

The tropics is a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator. It is limited in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere at approximately  N and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere at  S; these latitudes correspond to the axial tilt of the Earth...

 rainforest

Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions based on a minimum normal annual rainfall of 1750-2000 mm...

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

Dulit Frogmouth

The Dulit Frogmouth is a little-known species of bird in the Podargidae, or frogmouth, family, with a patchily recorded distribution in the mountain forests of northern and central Borneo...

 (Batrachostomus harterti), Dulit Partridge

Dulit Partridge

The Hose's Partridge , also known as Dulit Partridge, has been considered a distinctive subspecies of the Long-billed Partridge, a bird in the Phasianidae, or pheasant, family. It is endemic to Borneo, where it appears to be separated altitudinally from the nominate subspecies, and is often...

 (Rhizothera dulitensis), the frog

Frog

Frogs are amphibians in the order Anura , formerly referred to as Salientia . Most frogs are characterized by a short body, webbed digits , protruding eyes and the absence of a tail...

 Rhacophorus dulitensis

Rhacophorus dulitensis

Rhacophorus dulitensis is a species of frog in the Rhacophoridae family.It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and intermittent freshwater marshes....

, the caecilian

Caecilian

The caecilians are an order of amphibians that superficially resemble earthworms or snakes. They mostly live hidden in the ground, making them the least familiar order of amphibians. All extant caecilians and their closest fossil relatives are grouped as the clade Apoda. They are mostly...

 Ichthyophis dulitensis

Ichthyophis dulitensis

Ichthyophis dulitensis is a species of amphibian in the Ichthyophiidae family.It is endemic to Malaysia. It is named after Mount Dulit in northern Sarawak...

, and to the trilobite beetle genus Duliticola

Duliticola

Duliticola is a genus of beetles of the family Lycidae. It is named after Mount Dulit in Borneo. The females stay in the larval form and are about 40–80 mm in length. They have a flat dark body with large scales over the head, resembling trilobites. Hence the informal names "Trilobite...

. It is the site from which Charles Hose

Charles Hose

Charles Hose was a British colonial administrator, zoologist and ethnologist.He was born in Hertfordshire, England, and was educated at Felsted in Essex. Admitted to Clare College, Cambridge in 1882, he almost immediately migrated to Jesus College, and later left Cambridge without taking a degree...

 collected the holotype

Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example of an organism, known to have been used when the species was formally described. It is either the single such physical example or one of several such, but explicitly designated as the holotype...

 specimen of the rare and elusive Hose's Civet

Hose's Palm Civet

The Hose's palm civet , also known as the Hose's civet , is a civet found in Borneo. It is named after zoologist Charles Hose and is a member of the family Viverridae...

(Diplogale hosei) in 1891.