Angel Island mouse [SEP] IUCN conservation status
- † "P. g. mejiae" - Mejia
Biology.
The Angel Island mouse is believed to be descended from an isolated population of cactus mice, possibly belonging to the "P. e. fraterculus" species or subspecies The critically endangered San Lorenzo mouse, which inhabits a smaller group of islands to the south, may be descended from the same stock, isolated when the islands separated from the mainland as sea levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age. The two species remain able to interbreed, although it is
species, Goodman's mouse lemur, and the lowland species, Gerp's mouse lemur, both described less than ten years earlier, are found north of the Mangoro River, while Jolly's mouse lemur ("M. jollyae") and the brown mouse lemur are found south of Marolambo.
Conservation status.
Due to extensive habitat degradation within Marohita Forest between 2003 and 2012, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) evaluated the Marohita mouse lemur as Endangered at a workshop for the IUCN Red List held