Buffoon Lemniscomys

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Buffoon Lemniscomys
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Lemniscomys Species: L. macculus
Binomial name
Lemniscomys macculus (Thomas & Wroughton, 1910)

The Buffoon Lemniscomys or Buffoon Striped Grass Mouse (Lemniscomys macculus) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda, and possibly Rwanda. Its natural habitats are moist savannah and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.

[edit] References

• Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
• Van der Straeten, E., Lavrenchenko, L. & Rahman, E.A. 2004. Lemniscomys macculus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.