The Paradox Vole lives in the grasslands and scrub of the Kopet-Dag Mountains. It eats plants and stores food in underground tunnels.
Body length reaches 12.6 cm and tail length is 2.1–3.1 cm. The back is gray-brown to reddish, while the underside is pale gray; some individuals are reported to become white underneath in winter.
It eats plants, uses underground tunnels, and stores food. Its activity shifts by season: it is reported in the early morning and evening in spring and summer, and by day in winter and early spring.
It eats green plant parts, roots, bulbs and seeds.
Its branching underground burrows have several entrances.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.