Cremnomys cutchicus Wroughton, 1912 . J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 21:340.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Kutch, Dhonsa .

DISTRIBUTION: An Indian endemic: Kutch, Kathiawar, S Rajputana, and Bihar in NW India; Mysore, Bellary, and Eastern Ghats in S Peninsula.

SYNONYMS: australis, caenosus, médius, siva, rajput.

COMMENTS: Ellerman (1961) suggested that australis was possibly a valid species. The complex needs taxonomic revision. Chromosomal information reported by Raman and Sharna (1977), Sharma and Gadi (1977), Rishi and Puri (1984), and Sobti and Gill (1984).