Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2 754 818 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 Rheithrosciurus Gray 1867 Rheithrosciurus Gray 1867 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, 20: 273 . Type Species: Sciurus macrotis Gray 1857 Synonyms: Rhithrosciurus Hose 1893 . Species and subspecies: 1 species: Species Rheithrosciurus macrotis (Gray 1856) Discussion: Tribe Sciurini according to Moore (1959:177) , or incertae sedis ( Simpson, 1945:78 ). Recent molecular studies ( Mercer and Roth, 2003 ) support the placement of Rheithrosciurus in the tribe Sciurini .