Barbary striped grass mouse

The Barbary striped grass mouse, Lemniscomys barbarus, is a small rodent of the suborder Myomorpha, native to coastal Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia in northwest Africa. It is a monotypic species. In the past it was believed to occur across a large part of Sub-Saharan Africa as well, but those populations are now treated as a separate species, Heuglin's striped grass mouse, Lemniscomys zebra. The Barbary, Heuglin's and Hoogstraal's striped grass mouse form a group with a distinctly dark and light striped coat, while other Lemniscomys have more spotty or interrupted stripes or only a single dark stripe along the back. These relatively small Lemniscomys are among the species most commonly kept in captivity.