Buffoon striped grass mouse

The Buffoon striped grass mouse, Lemniscomys macculus, is also called the Buffoon lemniscomys. It is a species of rodent in the family Muridae and belongs to the genus Lemniscomys, the striped grass mice. The name was published by Thomas and Wroughton in 1910. The species is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda, and possibly in Rwanda, so its recorded range crosses central and eastern Africa. Its natural habitats are given as moist savannah and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland. The Wikipedia article cites the Mammal Species of the World reference of Musser and Carleton (2005), and GBIF lists the name as accepted.