Volemys kikuchii (Kuroda, 1920) . Dobuts. Zasshi, 32:40 -41.

TYPE LOCALITY: Taiwan, Mt. Morrison, 10,000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to highlands of Taiwan; see Lin et al. (1987).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Volemys . Zagorodnyuk (1990) listed this as the only member of the kikuchii species group in Volemys . Morphometric analyses of crania and dentitions are provided by Kaneko (1987); conventional karyotype reported by Harada et al. (1991); information about the holotype and type locality was summarized by Jones (1975).