Mandarin Vole

The Mandarin vole has a head-and-body length of 9.7–11.3 centimetres and a tail of 2.0–2.7 centimetres, with hind feet of 15–18 millimetres and ears of 7–12 millimetres. The body colour is reddish or chestnut-brown to dark grey-brown, and the belly can be light sandy-brown to dark grey-brown. In paler animals the tail is uniformly sandy-brown, while in darker ones it is grey-brown above and sandy below. (German Wikipedia, general species account)

The upper sides of the feet and hands likewise range from light sandy-brown to dark grey-brown. It is a vole of the subfamily Arvicolinae found in the northeast of China as far as Mongolia, and in Russia and Korea. (German Wikipedia, general species account)