Giant Mouse Lemur (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The giant mouse lemurs are small lemur species in the genus Mirza. They are native to the western deciduous forests of Madagascar, usually located near the coast or other sources of water. Their fur is an olive-brown colour dorsally, and yellowish-grey ventrally.Originally the genus was described as a single species, Coquerel's Giant Mouse Lemur Mirza coquereli (named after the French entomologist Charles Coquerel), when this species was separated from the genus Microcebus in 1985. In 2005 a second species, Northern Giant Mouse Lemur M. zaza, was described. In 2010, it was announced that another distinct taxon with areas of reddish fur on back and tail had been discovered in the Berevo-Ranobe region.