The three new mouse lemurs were officially named in a paper published in June by the International Journal of Primatology and announced at a conservation conference on June 21, 2006 in the Malagasy capital.

• 在国际灵长类动物学会出版的国际性期刊6月号的一篇文章中有三种新狐猴被正式命名为鼠狐猴，以及6月21日在马达加斯加首都的一个保育大会上被宣布。