Menetes

Menetes is a monotypic genus containing the single species Menetes berdmorei, Berdmore's ground squirrel, also called the Indochinese ground squirrel, found from eastern Myanmar and China's Yunnan province to Vietnam and Cambodia. It has a grey-brown back and white belly marked with a beige stripe above a black stripe on each side, and a pointed head that resembles a mouse or treeshrew; about 20 centimeters long in the body with a 15 centimeter tail, it lives mostly on the ground in the thick underwood of rainforest but also uses fields, villages, and rice paddies, and is listed as Least Concern.