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The world's smallest primate is Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, one of Madagascar's lemurs.
Mouse lemurs are the smallest primates, with a combined head, body and tail length under 27 centimetres. Among them, a University of Wisconsin primate factsheet names Microcebus berthae, Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, as the world's smallest primate, citing a 2005 study.
Sources
- Madame Berthe's mouse lemur Wikipedia
- Primate Factsheets: Mouse lemur (Microcebus) Taxonomy, Morphology, & Ecology Primate Info Net, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (archived by the Wayback Machine)
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What the wording keeps
- smallest living primate as identified by a 2005 study
- mouse lemurs measure under 27 cm including the tail
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