Myospalax epsilanus Thomas, 1912

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 675

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scientific name	Myospalax epsilanus Thomas, 1912
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Myospalax epsilanus Thomas, 1912 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 9:94.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, Heilongjiang Prov. (Manchuria), Khingan Mtns, 3400 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: NE China (valleys of Great Khiaghau in Kirin Province) and Russia (E Transbaikalia between Amur and S Ussuri Territory); limits unknown.

COMMENTS: The most primitive member of the monophyletic myospalax species-group, which includes species represented by modern specimens as well as Pliocene and Pleistocene fossils ( Lawrence, 1991).