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Marohita mouse lemur
The Marohita mouse lemur (''Microcebus marohita'') is a species of mouse lemur known only from the Marohita Forest in eastern Madagascar, near the village of Marolambo. Specimens were first collected in December 2003, and its discovery was announced in 2013 along with the Anosy mouse lemur (''Microcebus tanosi''). It is a large mouse lemur, weighing up to , and lives within the same area as the Goodman's mouse lemur (''M. lehilahytsara''), Simmons' mouse lemur (''M. simmonsi''), and the brown mouse lemur (''M. rufus''), all four of which are nearly identical in appearance. Its fur is rufous on its back and grayish-beige on its underside. Nothing is known about its behavior. Its conservation status was evaluated as Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2012, before it was formally described, because its only known habitat had severely degraded between 2003 and 2012.
==Taxonomy and phylogeny==
The first specimens of Marohita mouse lemur (''Microcebus marohita'') were collected by biologist Rodin Rasoloarison during field work in December 2003. At the time, he captured three mouse lemurs at Marohita Forest in the Toamasina Province of eastern Madagascar, near the village of Marolambo. These were prepared as biological specimens, including skins, skulls, and tissue samples, with the required permits from the government of Madagascar. The Marohita mouse lemur was described concurrently with the Anosy mouse lemur (''Microcebus tanosi'') in 2013 by Rasoloarison and researchers David Weisrock, Anne Yoder, Daniel Rakotondravony, and Peter M. Kappeler using molecular analysis. The Marohita mouse lemur belongs to the genus ''Microcebus'' within the family Cheirogaleidae. The holotype was collected on 2 December 2003 at Marohita Forest. Its species name, ''marohita'', refers to the forest in which it was found and means "many views" in the Malagasy language.
Despite living near the Goodman's mouse lemur (''M. lehilahytsara''), Simmons' mouse lemur (''M. simmonsi''), and the brown mouse lemur (''M. rufus''), Rasoloarison ''et al.'' reported no indications of gene flow between these four sympatric species. The population at Marohita Forest is considered a distinct species using the metapopulation lineage concept of species. It is nearly identical in appearance to the other eastern mouse lemurs, which are known for being cryptic species.
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