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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.〔van der Straeten, E., Decher, J., Corti, M. & Abdel-Rahman, E.H. (2008). (''Lemniscomys striatus'' ). In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. Downloaded on 28 December 2012.〕 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, Democratic Republic of Congo; *''L.s.ardens'' (Thomas, 1910): Central Kenya and southern Tanzania; *''L.s.dieterleni'' (Van der Straeten, 1976): eastern Democratic Republic of Congo; *''L.s.luluae'' (Matschie, 1926): Angola, southern Democratic Republic of Congo; *''L.s.massaicus'' (Pagenstecher, 1885): South Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Ruanda, Burundi, Zambia and South-east Democratic Republic of Congo ; *''L.s.wroughtoni'' (Thomas, 1910): Central and western Ethiopia.〔Glover M.Allen (1939). (A checklist of African Mammals ). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Museum in Cambridge, Mass.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Typical striped grass mouse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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