Rhizomys pruinosus Blyth, 1851. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 20:519.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Assam, Khasi Hills, Cherrapunji.

DISTRIBUTION: S China (Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong), NE India (Assam), E Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, south to Perak on Malay Peninsula.

SYNONYMS: latouchei, pannosus, prusianus, senex, umbriceps (see Ellerman and MorrisonScott, 1951; Medway, 1969).