A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation Author Decher, Jan Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany) and Department of Biology, University of Vermont. Burlington, Vermont 05405 (USA) j. decher @ leibniz-zfmk. de Author Norris, Ryan W. Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University at Lima, Lima, OH 45804 (USA) ryanwnorris @ gmail. com ryanwnorris@gmail.com Author Abedi-Lartey, Michael Golden Veroleum (Liberia) Inc., Monrovia Office: Unit 102, Wazni Building, 13 th Street and Tubman Boulevard, Sinkor, Monrovia (Liberia) Author Oppong, James Wildlife Division, Forestry Commission, P. O. Box M 239, Accra (Ghana) Author Hutterer, Rainer Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany) Author Weinbrenner, Martin Philosophenweg 12, 77654 Offenburg (Germany) Author Koch, Martin Department of Biogeography, University of Trier, Universitätsring 15, D- 54296 Trier (Germany) Author Podsiadlowski, Lars Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany) Author Kilpatrick, C. William Department of Biology, University of Vermont. Burlington, Vermont 05405 (USA) wkilpatr @ uvm. edu wkilpatr@uvm.edu text Zoosystema 2021 2021-05-20 43 14 253 281 journal article 6523 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a14 b1eb9973-f581-4a60-9c87-68b7ae4b3591 1638-9387 4783781 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7008A933-FE5E-405E-BBAD-8C06D2A8807D Lemniscomys striatus ( Linnaeus, 1758 ) Mus striatus Linnaeus, 1758: 62 . FIG. 5. — Misonne’s Soft-furred Rat Praomys misonnei Van der Straeten & Dieterlen, 1987 from Kalakpa Resource Reserve. Photo: M. Weinbrenner 1999. FIG. 6. — Dahomey Gap Woodmouse Hylomyscus pamfi Nicolas, Olayemi, Wendelen & Colyn, 2010 from Apesokubi. Photo: M. Weinbrenner 1999. COMMON NAME. — Striated Grass-Mouse; Ewe: Gbaxlé. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Agumatsa Wildlife Sanctuary • 1 ♂ ; USNM 590104 ; 22.XI.1999 • 1♂ ; USNM 590075 ; 13.VIII.2001 . Shiare • 1♀ ; SMF 91436 with 7 embryos; 22.VIII.2001 ; by hunter. Apesokubi (Site 1) • 1♀ ; ZTNHC 963 ; 26.XI.1999 • 1♀ ; SMF 91376; 28.VIII.2001 . REMARK A grassland and farmbush species that also occurs along roads in the forest. There are 43 additional Lemniscomys striatus from the Volta Region at the USNM, collected by the African Mammal Project at Leklebi Agbesia and Odomi Jongo ( 2 miles E Nkwanta). Hurst et al. (1995) also caught four individuals in riparian forest and tree savanna at KRNP. Although not genetically tested our Lemniscomys striatus east of the Volta River should belong to what Nicolas et al. (2008) called Clade III. CONSERVATION STATUS. — Lemniscomys striatus is listed as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List.