Rhizomys sinensis Gray, 1831 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1831:95.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, Guangdon, near Canton .

DISTRIBUTION: S and C China (Sichuan, north to S Gansu and S Shaanxi, east and south through Hubei, Anhui, and Fujian; see Allen, 1940; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Wang, 1990; Zheng and Zhang, 1990), N Burma, and Vietnam.

SYNONYMS: chinensis, davidi, reductus, vestitus, wardi (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951).

COMMENTS: Dao and Cao (1990) described reductus as a subspecies of R. sinensis from S Vietnam.