Talpa mizura Gunther, 1880 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1880:441.

TYPE LOCALITY: Japan, Honshu, near Yokohama .

DISTRIBUTION: Honshu (Japan).

COMMENT: Imaizumi, 1970, The Handbook of Japanese Land Mammals, Vol. 1, included this species in the genus Euroscaptor . Corbet, 1978:35 placed this species in Talpa .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301403006011004001.