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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Lemniscomys
SPECIES Lemniscomys linulus
| Author: | Thomas, 1910. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 6: 429. | | Common Name: | Senegal Lemniscomys | | Type Locality: | Senegal (= French Gambia), Gamon. | | Distribution: | Sudan savanna and forest clearings in Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire (Van der Straeten, 1980a); may also occur in Gambia and Ghana (Grubb et al., 1998). | | Status: | IUCN – Data Deficient. | | Comments: | Once treated as a subspecies of L. griselda (G. M. Allen, 1939), but now considered a separate West African species morphologically related to L. griselda (Van der Straeten, 1980a). Member of murine assemblage endemic to West Africa (see account of Grammomys buntingi). |
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