Mogera robusta Nehring, 1891 . Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin, 6:95.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Primorsky Krai, near Vladivostok .

DISTRIBUTION: Korea to N. E. China and adjacent Siberia; Japan (S. Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Sado Isl.).

COMMENT: Includes coreana; see Corbet, 1978:36. Includes kobeae, which Imaizumi, 1970, The Handbook of Japanese Land Mammals, Vol. 1, regarded as a separate species. Formerly included in Talpa; but see Imaizumi, 1970, op cit.; Gureev, 1979; Gromov and Baranova, 1981:16. See also comment under wogura .