Hylomys suillus Müller, 1840 . In Temminck, Verh. Nat. Gesch. Nederland Overz. Bezitt., Zool., Zoogd. Indisch. Archipel., p. 50 (1840].

TYPE LOCALITY: " Java en het andere van Sumatra " Indonesia .

DISTRIBUTION: Peninsular Malaysia to Indochina and the Yunnan/Burmese border; islands of Borneo, Java, Sumatra and Tioman.

SYNONYMS: dorsalis, maxi, microtinus, parvus, pegunensis, siamensis, tionis.

COMMENTS: Includes dorsalis and tionis as discrete subspecies; see Corbet (1988:122). For date of publication see Appendix I.