Barbary striped grass mouse

{{Short description|Species of rodent}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Cassola, F. |year= 2016 |title= Lemniscomys barbarus |errata= 2017 |page= e.T11487A115518800 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T11487A22439107.en |access-date=3 December 2023}}

| name = Barbary striped grass mouse

| image = Barbary_Striped_Grass_Mouse.jpg

| genus = Lemniscomys

| species = barbarus

| authority = (Linnaeus, 1766)

}}

File:The Barbary mouse (1895).jpg

The Barbary striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys barbarus) is a small rodent of the suborder Myomorpha. This monotypic species is native to coastal Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia in northwest Africa.{{MSW3|id=13001407}}Carleton, M D., and Van der Straeten, E. (1997). Morphological differentiation among Subsaharan and north African populations of the Lemniscomys barbarus complex (Rodentia : Muridae). [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109905 Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 110(4)]: 640-680. In the past it was believed to also occur throughout a large part of Sub-Saharan Africa, but these populations are now treated as a separate species, the Heuglin's striped grass mouse (L. zebra). These relatively small Lemniscomys are among the species most commonly kept in captivity.Tofts, Russel. [http://www.jirds.cwc.net/rag/profiles/stms.htm Striped Mouse.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070906113444/http://www.jirds.cwc.net/rag/profiles/stms.htm |date=September 6, 2007 }}

The Barbary, Heuglin's and Hoogstral's striped grass mouse (L. hoogstraali) form a group that have a distinctly dark and light striped pelage. Other Lemniscomys either have more spotty/interrupted stripes or only a single dark stripe along the back.