Lemniscomys barbarus (Linnaeus, 1766)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 601

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Lemniscomys barbarus (Linnaeus, 1766) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 12th ed., l: addenda.

TYPE LOCALITY: Morocco (= "Barbaria," see Allen, 1939) .

DISTRIBUTION: Recorded from Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, W Sahara, Senegal, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya N Uganda, Tanzania, and E Zaire.

SYNONYMS: aibolineatus, convictus, dunni , ifniensis, manteufeli , nigeriae , nubalis, olga, orientalis (Hatt, 1935, not Desmarest, 1819), oweni , spekei, zebra .

COMMENTS: Significance of the considerable variation in coat color and pattern as well as body size among geographic samples will have to be assessed by a careful systematic revision. Closest relative is L. hoogstraali .