Syntheosciurus Bangs, 1902 . Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 39:25.

TYPE SPECIES: Syntheosciurus brochus Bangs, 1902 .

COMMENTS: Tribe Microsciurini (Moore, 1959) . Goodwin (1946) suggested that Syntheosciurus might be a subgenus of Sciurus; but see Heaney and Hoffmann (1978), Enders (1980), and Hall (1981:438). Moore (1959:179) included Mesosciurus ( granatensis, pyrrhinus) as a subgenus, but see Sciurus .