Myospalax psilurus (Milne-Edwards, 1874)

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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scientific name	Myospalax psilurus (Milne-Edwards, 1874)
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Myospalax psilurus (Milne-Edwards, 1874) . Rech. Hist. Nat. Mammifères, p. 126.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, Chihli, south of Peking .

DISTRIBUTION: Transbaikalia and Ussuri region of Russia to E Mongolia, NE and C China; limits unknown.

SYNONYMS: spilurus .

COMMENTS: The sole member of the psilurus species-group, which is defined, except for rootless hypsodonty, by retention of the greatest number of primitive traits of any species in the genus ( Lawrence, 1991).