Mittendorf's striped grass mouse

Mittendorf's striped grass mouse, or Mittendorf's lemniscomys (Lemniscomys mittendorfi), is a small rodent of the family Muridae that is known only from Mount Oku in Cameroon. It lives in montane grassland above the forest belt at about 2,200 m, in grass savanna with scattered bushes, and searches for it on nearby mountains in Nigeria with similar habitat found nothing. The head and body measure about 92 mm and the tail is nearly as long. The back is dark brown with a narrow blackish stripe along the spine and eight pale lateral stripes, the upper three broken into spots and the lower ones forming a continuous line, while the flanks are greyish, the chest yellowish brown and the underparts pale grey. The chromosome number is 2N = 56. Its small range may be affected by livestock grazing on its upland pasture and possibly by climate change, but no major threats have been identified and the International Union for Conservation of Nature rates it Least Concern.