Sciurus stramineus Eydoux and Souleyet, 1841 . In Vaillant, Voy. autour du monde...la Bonite, Zool., 1:73.

TYPE LOCALITY: Peru, Piura Dept., Omatope .

DISTRIBUTION: Extreme NE Peru and SE Ecuador in the area surrounding the Gulf of Guayaquil.

SYNONYMS: fraseri (Gray, 1867); guayanus Thomas, 1900; nebouxii I. Geoffroy, 1855; zarumae J. A. Allen, 1914.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Guerlinguetus; see Cabrera (1961:373).