Parascaptor Gill, 1875 . Bull. U.S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr., I, 2:110.

TYPE SPECIES: Talpa leucura Blyth, 1850 .

COMMENTS: Tribe Talpini . Included in Talpa by Corbet and Hill (1991:38); but retained as a genus by Abe et al. (1991).