Mogera kobeae Thomas, 1905 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 15:487.

TYPE LOCALITY: Japan, Hondo, Kobe .

DISTRIBUTION: Kyushu, Shikoku and southern part of Honshu, Japan.

COMMENTS: Included in Talpa robusta by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1966) and Corbet (1978c); but retained as a separate species by Abe (1970), Yoshiyuki (1986), and Yoshiyuki and Imaizumi (1991).