Striped Grass Mouse
''Lemniscomys'', sometimes known as striped grass mice or zebra mice, is a genus of murine rodents from Africa. Most species are from Sub-Saharan Africa; ''Barbary Striped Grass Mouse, L. barbarus'' is the only one found north of the Sahara.Jonathan Kingdon, Kingdon, J. (1997). ''The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals.'' pp. 212-213. They are generally found in grassy habitats, but where several species overlap in distribution there is a level of Niche differentiation, habitat differentiation between them. They are long, of which about half is tail, and weigh . The pelage pattern of the species fall into three main groups: The "true" zebra mice with distinct dark and pale stripes (''L. barbarus'', ''Hoogstal's Striped Grass Mouse, L. hoogstraali'' and ''Heuglin's Striped Grass Mouse, L. zebra''), the spotted grass mice with more spotty/interrupted stripes (''Bellier's Striped Grass Mouse, L. bellieri'', ''Buffoon Striped Grass Mouse, L. macculus'', ''Mittendorf's Striped Gr ...
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Pliocene
The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58See the 2014 version of the ICS geologic time scale
million years ago. It is the second and most recent epoch of the Neogene Period in the . The Pliocene follows the Epoch and is followed by the Epoch. Prior to the 2009 ...
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