Lemniscomys barbarus (Linnaeus, 1766) . Syst. Nat., 12th ed., l: addenda.

TYPE LOCALITY: Morocco (= "Barbaria," see Allen, 1939) .

DISTRIBUTION: Recorded from Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, W Sahara, Senegal, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya N Uganda, Tanzania, and E Zaire.

SYNONYMS: aibolineatus, convictus, dunni, ifniensis, manteufeli, nigeriae, nubalis, olga, orientalis (Hatt, 1935, not Desmarest, 1819), oweni, spekei, zebra .

COMMENTS: Significance of the considerable variation in coat color and pattern as well as body size among geographic samples will have to be assessed by a careful systematic revision. Closest relative is L. hoogstraali .