Microsciurus J. A. Allen 1895

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 754-818 : 757

Microsciurus J. A. Allen 1895

Microsciurus J. A. Allen 1895 , Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 7: 332.

Type Species: Sciurus alfari J. A. Allen 1895

Species and subspecies: 4 species with 17 subspecies:

Species Microsciurus alfari J. A. Allen 1895

Subspecies Microsciurus alfari subsp. alfari J. A. Allen 1895

Subspecies Microsciurus alfari subsp. alticola Goodwin 1943

Subspecies Microsciurus alfari subsp. browni Bangs 1902

Subspecies Microsciurus alfari subsp. fusculus Thomas 1910

Subspecies Microsciurus alfari subsp. septentrionalis Anthony 1920

Subspecies Microsciurus alfari subsp. venustulus Goldman 1912

Species Microsciurus flaviventer (Gray 1867)

Subspecies Microsciurus flaviventer subsp. flaviventer Gray 1867

Subspecies Microsciurus flaviventer subsp. napi Thomas 1900

Subspecies Microsciurus flaviventer subsp. otinus Thomas 1901

Subspecies Microsciurus flaviventer subsp. peruanus J. A. Allen 1897

Subspecies Microsciurus flaviventer subsp. rubrirostris J. A. Allen 1914

Subspecies Microsciurus flaviventer subsp. sabanillae Anthony 1922

Subspecies Microsciurus flaviventer subsp. similis Nelson 1899

Subspecies Microsciurus flaviventer subsp. simonsi Thomas 1900

Species Microsciurus mimulus Thomas 1898

Subspecies Microsciurus mimulus subsp. mimulus Thomas 1898

Subspecies Microsciurus mimulus subsp. boquetensis Nelson 1903

Subspecies Microsciurus mimulus subsp. isthmius Nelson 1899

Species Microsciurus santanderensis Hernandez-Camacho 1957

Discussion: Tribe Microsciurini , according to Moore (1959). Evidence to suggests that this genus is polyphyletic ( Mercer and Roth, 2003). See Emmons and Feer (1990).