Lemniscomys striatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 602

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scientific name	Lemniscomys striatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Lemniscomys striatus (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:62.

TYPE LOCALITY: " India " (= Sierra Leone; see Allen, 1939:394) .

DISTRIBUTION: From Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone west to Ethiopia, and south into NW Angola and through Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Zaire, and Tanzania into NE Zambia and N Malawi.

SYNONYMS: ardens, dieterleni , fasciatus , lulae, lynesi, massaicus , micropus , orientalis (Desmarest, 1819, not Hatt, 1935), pulchella , pulcher , spermophilus, venustus , versustos, wroughtoni .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Van der Straeten and Verheyen (1980).