Dremomys pyrrhomerus (Thomas, 1895) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 16:242.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Ichang, Yang-tse-kiang [river] [Hupei, China]."

DISTRIBUTION: C and S China, extreme N Vietnam, Hainan Island (China).

SYNONYMS: gularis Osgood, 1932; melli Matschie, 1922; riudonensis J. Allen, 1906.

COMMENTS: Moore and Tate (1965) treated pyrrhomerus as a separate species based on evidence of geographic parapatry, D. p. gularis with D. r. rufigenis (Osgood, 1932) . Corbet and Hill (1992) listed gularis as a separate species, but considered other forms of pyrrhomerus to be conspecific with rufigenis .