Senegal one-striped grass mouse

The Senegal one-striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys linulus), also called the Senegal grass mouse, is a rodent in the family Muridae. It lives in Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mali and Senegal, west of the Dahomey Gap, mainly on dry savanna but also on wooded savanna, bushy country, grassland and farmland. Adults have a head and body length of about 110 millimetres and a tail of similar length. The back is buffy grey with a clear dark stripe along the spine, and the underparts are white. It was once treated as a subspecies of Lemniscomys griselda but is now accepted as a species. It is common in Ivory Coast, no particular threats are known, and the IUCN rates it Least Concern.