The Bongolava mouse lemur is a nocturnal lemur with reddish-orange fur on its back and a pale belly. Known records place it in a small number of forest fragments in northwestern Madagascar.
Its short, dense fur is maroon to orange on the back and cream-colored on the belly.
It is arboreal and nocturnal. In the reported area it is known from three small fragments of dense primary mountain forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.