Talpa longirostris Milne-Edwards, 1870 . C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 70:341.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, Szechwan, Moupin .

DISTRIBUTION: C. and S. China (SW); possibly Tibet and Kashmir.

COMMENT: Formerly included in micrura by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1966:40 and Corbet, 1978:35. In the Euroscaptor group of Talpa; see Gureev, 1979:272.