Yunnan red-backed vole
| Yunnan red-backed vole | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Arvicolinae |
| Genus: | Eothenomys |
| Species: | E. miletus
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| Binomial name | |
| Eothenomys miletus (Thomas, 1914)
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The Yunnan red-backed vole (Eothenomys miletus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Southwest China, specifically Yunnan Province. It is the largest member of the genus Eothenomys, with a higher cranium, a soft, thick and long coat with tawny brown to reddish brown coloring and grey underparts.
It inhabits montane forests.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Smith, A.T. & Johnston, C.H. 2016. Eothenomys miletus (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T136275A115205387. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T136275A22376031.en. Accessed 30 May 2023. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern.
- 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.
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