The Kachin red-backed vole (''Eothenomys cachinus'') is a species of

rodent Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are na ...

in the family Cricetidae. It is found in

Kachin State Kachin State ( my, ကချင်ပြည်နယ်; Kachin: ), also known by the endonym Kachinland, is the northernmost state of Myanmar. It is bordered by China to the north and east (Tibet and Yunnan, specifically and respectively); Sh ...

in northern

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

. 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 genus ''Eothenomys'' (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. Eothenomys Mammals described in 1921 Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas {{Arvicolinae-stub