The giant pig-tailed rat belongs to the Platacanthomyidae family, a very unique and ancient family. There are only 2 genera and 6 species, 4 of which are in China. The 4 species in China originally only had one pig-tailed rat (<Typhlomys cinereus>), the type locality is Fujian, of which there are 2 subspecies, one in the border area between Vietnam and Yunnan, my country, and the other in Dalou Mountain between Chongqing and Guizhou. Chinese scientists Cheng Feng and others promoted these two subspecies to species (Cheng et al., 2017), and also discovered a new species: the small pig-tailed rat (<Typhlomys nanus>).