Nosy Boraha mouse lemur

The Nosy Boraha mouse lemur is a species of mouse lemur described in 2016 from Madagascar and named for its home on Nosy Boraha, the island also known as Sainte Marie. It was found by a team from the German Primate Center among closely related mouse lemurs such as Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, the Bemanasy mouse lemur and Ganzhorn's mouse lemur, which look so alike that morphology alone could not tell them apart. A genetic study carried out with scientists at the University of Kentucky, the Duke Lemur Center and the University of Antananarivo, using mitochondrial DNA sequencing, showed it to be distinct. The Mammal Diversity Database lists it as a synonym of Simmons' mouse lemur rather than as a species of its own.