Yunnan Red-backed Vole

Taxobox
name = "Yunnan Red-backed Vole"
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
subfamilia = Arvicolinae
tribus = Myodini
genus = "Eothenomys"
species = "E. miletus"
binomial = "Eothenomys miletus"
binomial_authority = (Thomas, 1914)
synonyms = The Yunnan Red-backed Vole ("Eothenomys miletus") is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found in South-West China, specifically Yunnan Province. It is the largest member of the "Eothenomys" genus, with a higher cranium, a soft, thick and long coat with tawny brown to reddish brown coloring and grey underparts.

References

*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.