Mus shortridgei (Thomas, 1914) . J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 23:30.

TYPE LOCALITY: Burma, Mt Popa, 4961 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Burma, Thailand, Cambodia (see map in J. T. Marshall, Jr., 1977a:431), and NW Vietnam (Dao, 1978).

SYNONYMS: nghialoensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Pyromys . Dao (1966) described nghialoensis as a subspecies of M. platythrix, which at the time embraced the Indochinese shortridgei .