This vole has a pale gray-straw back with dark tips on long guard hairs. The account records it beside mountain streams around the Pamirs, where it digs burrows in damp soil.
The back fur is pale gray-straw, with long guard hairs tipped brownish black. The underside is whitish and the paws are covered with white fur.
The account places it beside streams and rivulets in subalpine and alpine valleys at 2,000–4,000 m. It digs burrows in damp soil and eats grasses, wild flowers, tubers, and roots.
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