Order Rodentia - Family Spalacidae Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2 907 926 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 Rhizomys sinensis Gray 1831 Rhizomys sinensis Gray 1831 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1831: 95 . Type Locality: China , Guangdon, near Canton. Vernacular Names: Chinese Bamboo Rat . Synonyms: Rhizomys chinensis Swinhoe 1870 ; Rhizomys davidi Thomas 1911 ; Rhizomys neowardi Wang 2003 ; Rhizomys pediculus Wang 2003 ; Rhizomys reductus Dao and Cao 1990 ; Rhizomys vestitus Milne-Edwards 1871 ; Rhizomys wardi Thomas 1921 . Distribution: S China ( Yunnan , Guizhou , Sichuan , north to S Gansu and S Shaanxi , east and south through Hubei , Hunan , Guangxi , Guangdong , Fujian , Anhui , Zhejiang , and Jiangxi ; G. M. Allen, 1940; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951 ; Wang, 1990; Zhang et al., 1997 ; Zheng and Zhang, 1990 ), N Burma ( Ellerman, 1961 ), and N Vietnam ( Dang et al., 1994 ). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Reviewed by Corbet and Hill (1992) ; G. M. Allen (1940) and Ellerman (1961) offered excellent portrayals concerning morphology, distribution, taxonomy, and ecology. Dao and Cao (1990) described reductus as a subspecies of R. sinensis from N Vietnam . Corbet and Hill (1992) listed troglodytes , which is based on Chinese fossils, in the synonymy of R. sinensis following Cao (1985) , but Zheng (1993) documented fossils identified as R. sinensis and R. troglodytes from Pleistocene cave sediments in the Sichuan-Guizhou region. Wang (2003) recognized R. wardi as a species, with neowardi as subspecies.