The coat color of the vole is grayish yellow and brownish-gray. The size and shape of the skull of the vole varies with species. The center of the posterior border of the palatine bone is connected with the pterygoid process.

The vole's The coat is mostly fluffy, the snout is short and blunt, and the ear shells are short. Feet and limbs are short, no cheek pouches. The chewing surface is flat, with many left and right staggered triangular tooth rings, and the molars can grow for life. There is a retroorbital ridge on the squamosal bone.