Gerp's Mouse Lemur
Microcebus gerpi
- Critically endangered
- Card rarity: Legendary
- Mammals
Gerp's mouse lemur is a species of mouse lemur known only from the Sahafina Forest in eastern Madagascar, near Mantadia National Park. Its discovery was announced in 2012 by a German and Malagasy research team. The Sahafina Forest had not been studied until 2008 and 2009, when Groupe d'Étude et de Recherche sur les Primates de Madagascar (GERP)—a Malagasy-based research and conservation group for which the lemur is named—inventoried the forest's lemurs.
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Primates
- Family
- Cheirogaleidae
- Genus
- Microcebus