Eothenomys andersoni (Thomas, 1905) . Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 23: 18.

TYPE LOCALITY: Japan, N. Honshu, Iwate Ken, Tsunagi, near Morioka .

DISTRIBUTION: Honshu (Japan).

COMMENT: Formerly included in Aschizomys; includes niigatae, from C. Honshu, and imaizumii from S. Honshu; see Corbet, 1978: 100, and Aimi, 1980, Mem. Fac. Sci. Kyoto Univ. Ser. Biol., 8: 35-84; both were considered distinct species by Ota and Jameson, 1961, Pacif. Sci., 15:594-604, and Imaizumi, 1960, Coloured Illustrations of the Mammals of Japan, 196 pp. Ota and Jameson, 1961, Ecology, 42: 184-186, Ota and Jameson, 1961, Pacif. Sci., 15:594-604, Gromov and Polyakov, 1977: 147, and Corbet, 1978: 100, placed andersoni in Clethrionomys .