Typhlomys Milne-Edwards 1877

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Platacanthomyidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 905-906 : 906

Typhlomys Milne-Edwards 1877

Typhlomys Milne-Edwards 1877 , Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 6, 12: 9 [1877].

Type Species: Typhlomys cinereus Milne Edwards 1877

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Typhlomys cinereus Milne-Edwards 1877

Discussion: Miocene Neocometes is morphologically close to Typhlomys . Fossil Typhlomys are known from late Miocene in China (Lufeng and Yuanmou, Yunnan), isolated molars described as T. primitivus and T. hipparionum ( Ni and Qiu, 2002; Qiu, 1989). Two additional species, T. macrourus and T. intermedius , are also represented by molars from the late Pliocene in the Sichuan-Guizhou region, and Pleistocene samples of living T. cinereus come from the same area ( Zheng, 1993) and Guangxi in S China ( Chen et al., 2002). Zheng (1993) postulated two lineages: one leading from the late Miocene T. primitivus , through Pleistocene T. intermedius , to extant T. cinereus ; the other from late Miocene T. hipparionum to late Pliocene T. macrourus . Of the two late Miocene species, occlusal patterns of T. primitivus are most like those of Neocometes .