Sciurus Linnaeus, 1758 . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:63.

COMMENT: Includes Guerlinguetus, Hesperosciurus, Otosciurus, Sciurus (see Hall, 1981:417-436), Tenes (see Corbet, 1978:76), and, Hadrosciurus (see Cabrera, 1961: 374) as subgenera. Moore, 1959, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 118: 153-206, considered Guerlinguetus a distinct genus, which included Hadrosciurus and Urosciurus as subgenera.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410002030000000 as Sciurus .

5301410002012000000 as Guerlinguetus .