Proedromys bedfordi Thomas 1911

Proedromys bedfordi Thomas 1911, Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911 (90): 4.

Type Locality: China, S Gansu, 60 mi (97 km) SE Minchow.

Vernacular Names: Duke of Bedford's Vole.

Distribution: Recorded from S Gansu and N Sichuan (Wang et al., 1966; Zhang et al., 1997), China.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: The only extant species of the genus. Pleistocene fragments from Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong provinces have been identified as P. cf. bedfordi (Zheng and Li, 1990) .