Barbary striped grass mouse: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the Barbary striped grass mouse lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Lemniscomys barbarus
Group	Mice, rats & other rodents
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Africa
Class	Mammal
Order	Rodentia
Family	Muridae

Where does the Barbary striped grass mouse live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the Barbary striped grass mouse in 1 country or territory across Africa.

Benin

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the Barbary striped grass mouse endangered?

The Barbary striped grass mouse’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the Barbary striped grass mouse?

The Barbary striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys barbarus) is a mammal in the order Rodentia and the family Muridae, genus Lemniscomys. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the Barbary striped grass mouse

The Barbary striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys barbarus) is a small rodent of the suborder Myomorpha. This monotypic species is native to coastal Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia in northwest Africa. In the past it was believed to also occur throughout a large part of Sub-Saharan Africa, but these populations are now treated as a separate species, the Heuglin's striped grass mouse (L. zebra). These relatively small Lemniscomys are among the species most commonly kept in captivity.

The Barbary, Heuglin's and Hoogstral's striped grass mouse (L. hoogstraali) form a group that have a distinctly dark and light striped pelage. Other Lemniscomys either have more spotty/interrupted stripes or only a single dark stripe along the back.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Barbary striped grass mouse (revision 1367173380), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q818737 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).