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

TYPE LOCALITY: "Boquete, 7,000 ft. " [2,134 m, Chiriqui, Panama] .

DISTRIBUTION: Costa Rica to N Panama.

STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known.

SYNONYMS: poasensis (Goodwin, 1942).

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Enders (1953:509), and Wells and Giacalone (1985, Mammalian Species, 249). Includes poasensis (Hall, 1981:438; Heaney and Hoffmann, 1978; Enders, 1980).