What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Typical Lemniscomys been recorded?

Lemniscomys striatus occurrence evidence comes from 2,443 records in 30 countries and territories, from 1905 to 2023. Most records come from Uganda.

Typical Lemniscomys
Typical Lemniscomys — Photo (display-sized rendition): Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
MammaliaRodentiaMuridaeLemniscomys

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

2,443 records across 30 countries and territories, 1905–2023.

Lemniscomys striatus · GBIF taxon key 2438204

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-22. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: June.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

19052023

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Typical Lemniscomys has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Typical Lemniscomys. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Uganda 905
Ghana 261
Benin 230
DR Congo 191
Ethiopia 149
Kenya 141
Nigeria 110
Tanzania 91
Sierra Leone 84
Guinea 66
Côte d'Ivoire 56
Togo 47
Mali 33
Mauritania 13
Angola 10
South Sudan 10
Chad 10
Cameroon 8
Sudan 6
Malawi 4
Burkina Faso 3
Liberia 3
Gabon 2
Niger 2
Senegal 2
United States 2
Burundi 1
Central African Republic 1
Guinea-Bissau 1
Zambia 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.