Lemniscomys mittendorfi Eisentraut, 1968 . Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 19:7.

TYPE LOCALITY: Cameroon, Lake Oku .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.

COMMENTS: Included in striatus by Misonne (1974), but treated as a separate species by Van der Straeten and Verheyen (1980), who also suggested it has morphometric affinities with L. macculus and L. bellieri .