Myospalax fontanierii (Milne-Edwards, 1867)

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 : 675

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scientific name	Myospalax fontanierii (Milne-Edwards, 1867)
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Myospalax fontanierii (Milne-Edwards, 1867) . Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris), 7:376.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, Kansu .

DISTRIBUTION: Dry grasslands from Gansu, Ningxia ( Qin, 1991) through Hupeh and Anhui to Sichuan ( China).

SYNONYMS: baileyi , cansus , fontanus , kukunoriensis , rufescens , shenseius.

COMMENTS: Phylogenetically in same monophyletic group as M. smithii and M. rothschildi , which is the most derived group within the subfamily ( Lawrence, 1991). Fan and Shi (1982) recognized cansus and baileyi as species, but Li and Chen (1989) argued for their recognition as subspecies of M. fontanierii .