Mogera robusta Nehring, 1891 . Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin, 6:95.

TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Vladivostok .

DISTRIBUTION: Korea to NE China and adjacent Siberia.

SYNONYMS: coreana.

COMMENTS: Includes coreana; see Corbet (1978c). European authors often include kobeae and tokudae; however, Japanese authors (Imaizumi 1970b; Yoshiyuki 1988b) treat these as separate species. Formerly included in Talpa; but see Imaizumi (1970b), Gureev (1979), and Gromov and Baranova (1981).