Syntheosciurus Bangs, 1902 . Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Univ., 39:25.
REVIEWED BY: D. A. Sutton (DAS).
COMMENT: Goodwin, 1946, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 87:275-473, suggested that Syntheosciurus might be a subgenus of Sciurus; but see Heaney and Hoffmann, 1978, J. Mammal., 59:854-855, Enders, 1980, J. Mammal., 61:725-727, and Hall, 1981:438.
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