Talk:Claire's mouse lemur

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A fact from Claire's mouse lemur appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 August 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Claire's Mouse Lemur is a newly described species of primate that only lives on Nosy Bé, an island near Madagascar?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/August.

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Text and/or other creative content from Lokobe Mouse Lemur was copied or moved into Claire's Mouse Lemur with [permanent diff this edit]. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

Merger proposal[edit]

Per the following article:
Louis Jr., E.; Engberg, S.; McGuire, S.; McCormick, M.; Randriamampionona, R.; Ranaivoarisoa, J.; Bailey, C.; Mittermeier, R. & Lei, R. (2008). "Revision of the Mouse Lemurs, Microcebus(Primates, Lemuriformes), of Northern and Northwestern Madagascar with Descriptions of Two New Species at Montagne d’Ambre National Park and Antafondro Classified Forest". Primate Conservation 23: 19–38. PDF

"Since Radespiel et al. (2008) demonstrated the same result with an alternative data set, a singular terminal clade for both described mouse lemur species from the island of Nosy Be, we have established that Microcebus mamiratra has precedence over M. lokobensis Andriantompohavana et al. 2006, which should consequently be regarded as a junior synonym. Furthermore, the distribution of M. mamiratra not only extends throughout the island of Nosy Be, but also exists on mainland Madagascar, occupying IRS VI." (pg. 30)

So it seems that the Lokobe Mouse Lemur (Microcebus lokobensis) is a junior synonym of Claire's Mouse Lemur (Microcebus mamiratra). Russell Mittermeier's name is on the paper, and given that we don't have a paper with Groves' name on it, I'm guessing that's the best we can come by at this point. –Visionholder (talk) 06:01, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Done. WolfmanSF (talk) 18:08, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Name[edit]

Should the article be named Nosy Be Mouse Lemur as in The Handbook of the Mammals of the World, vol 3? Mpn (talk) 18:41, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]