Mittermeier's mouse lemur (''Microcebus mittermeieri'') 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 ...

known only from

Anjanaharibe-Sud Special Reserve Anjanaharibe-Sud Special Reserve is a wildlife reserve in the north-east of Madagascar. The reserve was designated in 1958 and contains some of the last intact primary rainforest, along with several, rare and endemic animals and plants. The area wa ...

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 ...

. Mittermeier's mouse lemur is one of the smallest mouse lemurs, but is larger than

Madame Berthe's mouse lemur Madame Berthe's mouse lemur (''Microcebus berthae'') or Berthe's mouse lemur is the smallest of the mouse lemurs and the smallest primate in the world; the average body length is and seasonal weight is around . ''Microcebus berthae'' is one of ...

, the smallest member of not only cheirogaleid family, but of all Primates. According to Schwitzer ''et al.'', length of head and body is about 8 cm and the tail reaches about 12 cm. The weight is about 46 g. On the face, between the eyes, white spot can be observed, it is present in every ''

Microcebus 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 ...

'' species. An area under it is yellow, which color reaches to ventral part of neck. Rest of the head is red-bronze to rusty, the same as the dorsum, contrary to the ventral part of the truncus, which is whitish brown. The tail is brown on dorsal part and has penultimate darker band and black tip. The basal parts of anterior and posterior extremities are orange. The finding was announced June 21, 2006 at the

Conservation International Conservation International (CI) is an American nonprofit environmental organization headquartered in Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia. CI's work focuses on science, policy and partnership with businesses, governments and communities. The or ...

Global Symposium in

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

, along with the discovery of

Jolly's mouse lemur Jolly's mouse lemur (''Microcebus jollyae'') is a species of mouse lemur from Mananjary and Kianjavato in Madagascar. The species is named in honor of primatologist Alison Jolly. Jolly's mouse lemur is uniformly reddish-brown with a small whit ...

''Microcebus jollyae'' and Simmons' mouse lemur ''Microcebus simmonsi'' as separate species.Three new lemurs take a bow in Madagascar
- Reuters News Release These new species were also officially announced in a paper in the ''International Journal of Primatology''. Type locality is

, province

Antsiranana Antsiranana ( mg, Antsiran̈ana ), named Diego-Suárez prior to 1975, is a city in the far north of Madagascar. Antsiranana is the capital of Diana Region. It had an estimated population of 115,015 in 2013. History The bay and city originally u ...

, Special Reserve Anjaranahibe-Sus, reaching on northwest to Bealalana. Coordinates are 49° 28’ E, 14° 48’ S. This place is located 1056 m above sea level. No subspecies are recognised. Like all other cheirogaleids, the Mittermeier's mouse lemur is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...

to Madagascar. It dwells in the northeastern part of the island, reaching Special Reserve Anjaranahibe-Sus by one side and Bealalana on the other. Maximum height is 1760 m above sea level. It is a forest animal, living in lowland and montane rain forests. It is arboreal and nocturnal. Research performed in primary forest Antambato of 150 ha found population density of 2,2 lemur / ha. There is no specific information concerning life cycle. Diet was not researched precisely, but probably Mittermeier's mouse lemur feed on

insect Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs ...

s and fruits, and maybe other items also consumed by congeneric lemurs.

Sympatric In biology, two related species or populations are considered sympatric when they exist in the same geographic area and thus frequently encounter one another. An initially interbreeding population that splits into two or more distinct species s ...

MacArthur's mouse lemur MacArthur's mouse lemur (''Microcebus macarthurii''), or the Anjiahely mouse lemur, is a species of mouse lemur known only from Makira Natural Park in northeastern Madagascar. The species is named in honor of the founder of the MacArthur Founda ...

in Anjaranahibe-Sus reserve.

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