Urotrichus Temminck, 1841 . Het. Instit. K. Ned. Inst., p. 212.

COMMENT: Includes Dymecodon; see Corbet, 1978:37, and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:33-34. See also Imaizumi, 1970, The Handbook of Japanese Land Mammals, Vol. 1, p. 123, who considered Dymecodon a distinct genus.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301403006013000000 as Urotrichus .

5301403006003000000 as Dymecodon .