Typhlomys Milne-Edwards, 1877 . Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, (1876), ser. 6, 12(2):9.

REVIEWED BY: J. E. Bucher (JEB); S. Wang (SW).

COMMENT: Formerly considered in a separate family and in a subfamily of Gliridae; see Arata, 1967, in Anderson and Jones, pp. 244-245. Transferred to subfamily Platacanthomyinae of Cricetidae by Chaline and Mein, 1979, Chaline et al., 1977, Mammalia, 41:245-252, Mein and Freudenthal, 1971, Scr. Geol., 2: 137, and Reig, 1980, J. Zool. Lond., 192:260.

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