Myospalax rothschildi Thomas, 1911

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 : 676

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Myospalax rothschildi Thomas, 1911 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 8:722.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, Gansu, 40 mi SE Tao-chou .

DISTRIBUTION: China; Kansu and Hubei.

SYNONYMS: hubeinensis, minor .

COMMENTS: The sister-species of M. smithii , and in same monophyletic cluster as M. fontainieri , as determined by cladistic analysis of external, cranial, and dental traits ( Lawrence, 1991). Recently, hubeinensis was described as subspecies of M. rothschildi by Li and Chen (1989).