Lemniscomys linulus (Thomas, 1910) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 6:429.

TYPE LOCALITY: Senegal (= French Gambia), Gamon .

DISTRIBUTION: Sudan savanna and forest clearings in Senegal and Ivory Coast (see map in Van der Straeten, 1980a).

COMMENTS: Once treated as a subspecies of L. griselda (Allen, 1939), but now considered a separate species related to L. griselda and L. rosalia .