what animal is maurice from madagascar

Maurice is an aye-aye lemur and King Juliens royal advisor and right-hand man. He is one of the main lemurs in the Madagascar franchise. The movie's main lemur characters are King Julien the ring-tailed lemur, Maurice the aye-aye, and Mort the mouse lemur. Maurice is also one of the five tritagonists of The Penguins of Madagascar and the deuteragonist of All Hail King.