Microcebus griseorufus

With alternating neutral skin colors

The red-gray dwarf lemur is 9-11 cm long, with a tail length of 12-14 cm and a weight of 30 grams. It has a relatively solid skull. It has alternating neutral skin colors, including gray, light gray, and neutral gray. The back is light gray and neutral gray, the front two-thirds of the abdomen is light grayish white, and the rest is bicolor light grayish white and light gray with neutral gray. There is a cinnamon-colored dorsal stripe from the top of the head or shoulders to the end of the tail. The head of this species has a pale neutral gray spot above the nose, cinnamon around the eyes, and a clay-colored crest. The dorsal side of the tail is cinnamon, while the ventral side in the farthest two-thirds is gray-brown, and the nearly one-third of the cinnamon has faint brown-black stripes. The paws are grayish white and also black.

It is found in the south and southwest of Madagascar, from Lampohara in the south to the Tular region, in the southeast Beza-Mahafaly (south of the Onilahy River), as well as Tsimanampetsotsa, Berenty, and in the extreme south Petriky. It survives at altitudes of 0-250 m.