Myospalax rothschildi Thomas, 1911 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 8:722.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, Gansu, 40 mi SE Tao-chou .

DISTRIBUTION: China; Kansu and Hubei.

SYNONYMS: hubeinensis, minor .

COMMENTS: The sister-species of M. smithii, and in same monophyletic cluster as M. fontainieri, as determined by cladistic analysis of external, cranial, and dental traits (Lawrence, 1991). Recently, hubeinensis was described as subspecies of M. rothschildi by Li and Chen (1989).