Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2 1189 1531 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 Lemniscomys striatus (Linnaeus 1758) [Mus] striatus Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 62 . Type Locality: " India " (= Sierra Leone ; see G. M. Allen, 1939:394 ). Vernacular Names: Typical Lemniscomys . Synonyms: Lemniscomys ardens (Thomas 1910) ; Lemniscomys dieterleni Van der Straeten 1976 ; Lemniscomys fasciatus ( Wroughton 1906 ) ; Lemniscomys luluae Matschie 1926 ; Lemniscomys lynesi Thomas and Hinton 1923 ; Lemniscomys massaicus (Pagenstecher 1885) ; Lemniscomys micropus ( Heller 1911 ) ; Lemniscomys orientalis (Desmarest 1819) ; Lemniscomys pulchella ( Gray 1864 ) ; Lemniscomys pulcher ( Wroughton 1906 ) ; Lemniscomys venustus (Thomas 1911) ; Lemniscomys versustus (Thomas 1911) ; Lemniscomys wroughtoni (Thomas 1910) . Distribution: From Guinea ( Ziegler et al., 2002 ), Sierra Leone and Ghana ( Grubb et al., 1998 ), and Burkina Faso west to Ethiopia ( Yalden et al, 1996 ), and south into N Angola ( Crawford-Cabral, 1998 ) and through Kenya ( Hollister, 1919 ), Uganda ( Delany, 1975 ), Rwanda , E Dem. Rep. Congo , and Tanzania ( Swynnerton and Hayman, 1951 ; Grimshaw et al., 1995 , reviewed Mt Kilimanjaro records) into NE Zambia ( Ansell, 1978 ) and N Malawi ( Ansell and Dowsett, 1988 ). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Reviewed by Van der Straeten and Verheyen (1980) . Carleton and Van der Straeten (1997) discussed and identified the holotype of Linnaeus’s Mus striatus . Chromosomal information reported by Matthey (1959) , Van der Straeten (1977 b ) , and Van der Straeten and Verheyen (1979 a ) . Van der Straeten (1976 a ) described dieterleni as a distinctive subspecies of L. striatus occurring in the Lake Kivu region of E Dem. Rep. Congo . He (1981) also documented the identity of venustus as representing a population of L. striatus . Morphology of palatal ridges and karyotypes contrasted with L. mittendorfi by Fülling (1992); see account of L. mittendorfi . Ecological and other data for populations from S Ghana reported by Ryan and Attuquayefio (2000) and Decher and Bahian (1999) . Hutterer et al. (1992 a ) noted that L. striatus is common in Nigeria and Cameroon . Kerbis Peterhans et al. (1998) reviewed altitudinal distribution on Ugandan slopes of Ruwenzori Mtns. Isolated teeth from Pleistocene deposits in East Africa have been identified as L . aff. striatus ( Wesselman, 1984 ) .