Typical Striped Grass Mouse

The typical striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys striatus) is a small rodent of the suborder Myomorpha in the family Muridae. == Taxonomy == Lemniscomys striatus comprises a complex of various similar species. Furthermore, there are about eleven different species of striped grass mouse, of which Lemniscomys barbarus and Lemniscomys striatus are the two most frequently encountered in captivity. The species is divided into the following six subspecies: L. s. striatus: Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, DRCongo; L. s. ardens (Thomas, 1910): central Kenya and southern Tanzania; L. s. dieterleni (Van der Straeten, 1976): eastern DRCongo; L. s. luluae (Matschie, 1926): Angola, southern DRCongo; L. s. massaicus (Pagenstecher, 1885): South Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Ruanda, Burundi, Zambia and southeastern DRCongo; L. s. wroughtoni (Thomas, 1910): central and western Ethiopia. == Description == Lemniscomys striatus is a small rodent, with the length of the head and the body between 93 and 142 mm (3.7 and 5.6 in), the length of the tail between 92 and 155 mm (3.6 and 6.1 in), the length of the foot between 20.5 and 32 mm (0.81 and 1.26 in), the length of the ears…