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Hoogstraal's striped grass mouse

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Hoogstraal's striped grass mouse
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Lemniscomys
Species:
L. hoogstraali
Binomial name
Lemniscomys hoogstraali
Dieterlen, 1991

Hoogstraal's lemniscomys or Hoogstraal's striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys hoogstraali) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is known only from the type specimen collected in 1961 at Paloich, north of Niayok, in former Upper Nile Province of eastern South Sudan.[1]

Its descriptive common name is based on its striped markings and its natural habitat in moist savanna. The specific epithet honors entomologist and parasitologist Dr. Harry Hoogstraal.

References

  1. ^ van der Straeten, E. & Abdel-Rahman, E.H. 2008. Lemniscomys hoogstraali. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. http://www.iucnredlist.org Archived 2014-06-27 at the Wayback Machine. Downloaded on 26 July 2013.
  • Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  • Van der Straeten, E. & Rahman, E.A. 2004. Lemniscomys hoogstraali. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.