Rhizomys sinensis Gray, 1831

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 685

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scientific name	Rhizomys sinensis Gray, 1831
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Rhizomys sinensis Gray, 1831 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1831:95.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, Guangdon, near Canton .

DISTRIBUTION: S and C China (Sichuan, north to S Gansu and S Shaanxi, east and south through Hubei, Anhui, and Fujian; see Allen, 1940; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Wang, 1990; Zheng and Zhang, 1990), N Burma, and Vietnam.

SYNONYMS: chinensis , davidi , reductus, vestitus , wardi (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951).

COMMENTS: Dao and Cao (1990) described reductus as a subspecies of R. sinensis from S Vietnam.

References

Dao Van Tien, and Cao Van Sung. 1990. Six new Vietnamese rodents. Mammalia, 54: 233 - 238.

Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.

Zheng Tao and Zhang Ying-mei. 1990. [The fauna and geographical division on Glires of Gansu province.] Acta Theriologica Sinica, 10 (2): 137 - 144.