Claire's Mouse Lemur

Taxobox
name = Claire's Mouse Lemur
status = DD
status_system = iucn3.1


image_width = 200px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Cheirogaleidae
genus = "Microcebus"
species = "M. mamiratra"
binomial = "Microcebus mamiratra"
binomial_authority = Andriantompohavana et al., 2006

Claire's Mouse Lemur ("Microcebus mamiratra") is a newly described species of lemur from the genus of the mouse lemurs ("Microcebus"). It lives only on the island Nosy Bé in the Antsiranana province of Madagascar. The scientific type name, "mamiratra", comes from Malagasy and means "clear and bright"; this refers the Theodore F. and Claire M. Hubbard Family Foundation, which has contributed to genetic research on Madagascar. This species is closely related to another new species, "M. species nova # 5"; which is related to the Sambirano Mouse Lemur, "Microcebus sambiranensis", and the Northern Rufous Mouse Lemur, "Microcebus tavaratra".cite journal| author = Andriantompohavana, R., Zaonarivelo, J.R., Engberg, S.E., Randriamampionona, R., McGuire, S.M., Shore, G.D., Rakotonomenjanahary, R., Brenneman, R.A. & Louis, E.E., Jr. | year = 2006 | title = Mouse Lemurs of Northeastern Madagascar with a Description of a New Species at Lokobe Special Reserve | journal = Occasional Papers, Museum of Texas Tech University | volume = 259 | pages = i+1–24 | url = http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/publications/opapers/ops/OP259.pdf | format = PDF]

This lemur is, with a weight of 60 g, average for its genus. The fur of the upper part is reddish-brown and becomes darker in the middle of the back. The tail is also reddish-brown, but the underbelly is white or creamy.

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