Ward's Red-backed Vole

Taxobox
name = "Ward's Red-backed Vole"
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Cricetidae
subfamilia = Arvicolinae
tribus = Myodini
genus = "Eothenomys"
species = "E. wardi"
binomial = "Eothenomys wardi"
binomial_authority = (Thomas, 1912)
synonyms = The Ward's Red-backed Vole ("Eothenomys wardi") is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family. It is found in China, specifically the north-western area of Yunnan Province. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of "Eothenomys chinensis", but most zoologists consider it to be a separate species due to the noticeably shorter tail and hind feet.

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.