Cremnomys blanfordi (Thomas, 1881) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, 7:24.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Madras, Kadapa .

DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to Sri Lanka and Peninsular India, from S provinces north to Behar and C Provinces.

COMMENTS: Once allocated to Rattus (Ellerman, 1941, 1961), blanfordi is phylogenetically distant from any species in that genus and is related to species in Cremnomys, a conclusion based on dental morphology (Misonne, 1969) and chromosomal evidence (Gadi and Sharma, 1983; Raman and Sharma, 1977; Rao and Lakhotia, 1972). Chromosomal number and configuration of C. blanfordi are very similar to that recorded for C. cutchicus and C. elvira (Raman and Sharma, 1977), but differ in amount of C-band-positive constitutive heterochromatin (Sharma and Gadi, 1977). Sody (1941) proposed Madromys, a nomen nudum, for this species.