Jolly's mouse lemur (''Microcebus jollyae'') is a species of

mouse lemur The mouse lemurs are nocturnal lemurs of the genus ''Microcebus''. Like all lemurs, mouse lemurs are native to Madagascar. Mouse lemurs have a combined head, body and tail length of less than , making them the smallest primates (the smallest spe ...

from Mananjary and Kianjavato in

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

. The species is named in honor of primatologist

Alison Jolly Alison Jolly (May 9, 1937 – February 6, 2014) was a primatologist, known for her studies of lemur biology. She wrote several books for both popular and scientific audiences and conducted extensive fieldwork on Lemurs in Madagascar, primari ...

. Jolly's mouse lemur is uniformly reddish-brown with a small white patch on the snout and a completely gray belly. The finding was announced June 21, 2006 at the Conservation International Global Symposium in

Antananarivo Antananarivo (French language, French: ''Tananarive'', ), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Madagascar. The administrative area of the city, known as Antananarivo-Renivohitra ("An ...

, along with the discovery of Mittermeier's mouse lemur ''Microcebus mittermeieri'' and Simmons' mouse lemur ''Microcebus simmonsi'' as separate species. These new species were also officially announced in a paper in the ''International Journal of Primatology''.

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