Simosciurus stramineus (Gervais, 1841)

Torres-Porras, Jeronimo, Cobos, Marlon E, Seoane, José Manuel & Aguirre, Nikolay, 2017, Large and medium-sized mammals of Buenaventura Reserve, southwestern Ecuador, Check List 13 (4), pp. 35-45 : 42

Simosciurus stramineus (Gervais, 1841)

Simosciurus simosciuru Gervais 1841 .

Simosciurus stramineus — Patton et al. 2015; Tirira 2016.

Sciurus stramineus Eydoux and Souleyet 1841 — Tirira 2007, Duckworth and Koprowski 2008.

Material examined: Table 1.

Back with black hairs at the base and gray to white at the tips, which give it a cryptic and notoriously frosty appearance; thighs and base of the tail with hairs of an

opaque orange color, intense or faint, with black hairs intermixed; ventral region gray, opaque brown or faintly reddish brown; head dark gray to blackish; long tail with black hairs at its base, but with white tips; legs black to whitish ( Tirira 2007).