Mogera insularis Swinhoe, 1863 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1862:356 [1863].

TYPE LOCALITY: "Formosa (China)" = Taiwan .

DISTRIBUTION: Taiwan, Hainan, SE China.

SYNONYMS: latouchei.

COMMENTS: Includes latouchei; see Corbet and Hill (1991c:38). Included in Talpa [ Euroscaptor] micrura by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:40); but see Corbet (1978c:33).