Bemanasy mouse lemur

The Bemanasy mouse lemur is a species of mouse lemur described in 2016 from Madagascar. A team of researchers at the German Primate Center found it among closely related species such as Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, the Boraha mouse lemur and Ganzhorn's mouse lemur, which are so similar in form that morphology could not separate them. A genetic study done with scientists at the University of Kentucky, the Duke Lemur Center and the University of Antananarivo used mitochondrial DNA sequencing to show that the animal was unique. The Mammal Diversity Database lists it as a synonym of the gray mouse lemur, so its standing as a separate species is not settled.