Description ²

The Southern Rock Vole medium-sized, short-tailed, brown mouse with small eyes and ears, and a yellow-orange snout. It is a distinct Rock Vole subspecies found in the mountains of Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. Differs from subspecies CHROTORRHINUS by darker coloration, larger skull, longer tooth rows, and heavier zygomata (Handley 1991).

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