Endangered
Mittermeier's mouse lemur
Microcebus mittermeieri
Mittermeier's mouse lemur is a dwarf lemur in the family Cheirogaleidae (order Primates) — Microcebus mittermeieri, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
On the face, between the eyes, white spot can be observed, it is present in every Microcebus species. An area under it is yellow, that 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, that is whitish brown.
Mittermeier's mouse lemur is one of the smallest mouse lemurs, but is larger than Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, 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.
Range and habitat
The basal parts of anterior and posterior extremities are orange. Like all other cheirogaleids, the Mittermeier's mouse lemur is endemic to Madagascar. It dwells in the northeastern part of the island, reaching Special Reserve Anjaranahibe-Sud by one side and Bealalana on the other.
Mittermeier's mouse lemur is a mouse lemur known only from Anjanaharibe-Sud Special Reserve in Madagascar. The type locality is Madagascar, province Antsiranana, Special Reserve Anjaranahibe-Sud, reaching on northwest to Bealalana.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
It is arboreal and nocturnal. Diet was not researched precisely, but probably Mittermeier's mouse lemur feed on insects and fruits, and maybe other items also consumed by congeneric lemurs.
In crisis
Research performed in primary forest Antambato of 150 ha found population density of 2,2 lemur / ha.
Mittermeier's mouse lemur is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Mittermeier's mouse lemur, Wikidata item Q1350668. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
