Chimarrogale platycephala (Temminck, 1842) . Fauna Japon., l(Mamm.), p. 23, pl. V, fig. 1.

TYPE LOCALITY: Japan, Kyushu, near Nagasaki and Bungo .

DISTRIBUTION: Most of the Japanese Islands.

COMMENTS: Included in himalayica since Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), but retained as a separate species by Harrison (1958), Hutterer and Hürter (1981), Hoffmann (1987), and Corbet and Hill (1991). Arai et al. (1985) reported on clinal size variation in Japan. For date of publication see Holthuis and Sakai (1970).