Eisentraut's striped mouse

Eisentraut's striped mouse, also called Eisentraut's hybomys, is a small rodent in the family Muridae, the large family that holds the Old World mice and rats. Its scientific name is Hybomys badius. The species was described by Wilfred Osgood in 1936, and a later name for it, eisentrauti, was published in 1986 by Van der Straeten and Hutterer and is now treated as a synonym. It is found only in Cameroon, so it is a national endemic, and its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. The species is threatened by habitat loss, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature rates it Endangered. The encyclopedia account this entry draws on is short, so details of its diet, breeding and behavior are not given here.