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. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410013002000000.

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Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 475, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031