Kachin Red-backed Vole

Taxobox
name = Kachin Red-backed Vole
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
subfamilia = Arvicolinae
tribus = Myodini
genus = "Eothenomys"
species = "E. cachinus"
binomial = "Eothenomys cachinus"
binomial_authority = Thomas, 1921
synonyms = The Kachin Red-backed Vole ("Eothenomys cachinus") is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found in Kachin State in northern Burma. Although described as a species by Thomas in 1921, it was subsequently included as a subspecies of either "E. melanogaster" or "E. miletus". Comparisons of a 1941 sampling showed that "E. cachinus" was indeed a separate species.

Adults of the species are large-bodied, with longer tails than any other member of the "Eothenomys" genus (between 43 and 61mm) and thick, soft and long fur, the upper parts being brown and the lower parts grey. Compared to "E. miletus" the skull is shorter and not as wide, with a significantly lower profile.

References

* Wilson & Reeder's Mammal Species of the World (third edition)
*Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.