Rattus sikkimensis Hinton, 1919 . J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 26:394.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Sikkim, Pashok .

DISTRIBUTION: Nepal and N. Burma to Yunnan, Kwangtung, and Hainan (China) and Vietnam.

COMMENT: The synonym koratensis was used for this species by Marshall, 1977, in Lekagul and McNeely, pp. 471-472; also see Musser et al., 1979, J. Mammal., 60:599. R. remotus is considered a conspecific by GGM (JTM).