Generic and Family Names of Rodents. 



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Meriones Illiger, 1811 ... Dipus tamaricinus, D. meridianus. 



Pachyuromys Lataste, 1880. . . Pachyuromys duprasi. 

 Psammomys Cretzschmar, 1828. Psammomys obesus. 

 Rhombomys Wagner, 1841 , . . . Rhombomys pallidus. 

 Tatera Lataste, 1882 Gerbillus indicus. 



HYDROMYIN/E. 



Hydromyina GRAY, Thomson's Ann. Philos., XXVI, p. 341, Nov., 1825. 

 Hydromyinae ALSTON, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1876, p. 80. 

 Hydromysideee LESSON, Nouv. Tabl. Regne Animal, Mamm., p. 125,1842. 



Name, authority, and date. 

 Chrotomys Thomas, 1895. 

 Hydromys Geoffrey, 1805. 



Xeromys Thomas, 1889. . . . 



Type or included species. 

 Chrotomys whiteheadi. 

 Mus coypus, Hydromys chrysogaster, 



H. leucogaster. 

 Xeromys myoides. 



MICROTIN/E. 



J Arvicolidae GRAY, London Med. Repository, XV, p. 303, April 1, 1821. 

 J Ellobiinae 1 GILL, Arrangement Fam. Mamm., p. 20, Nov., 1872. 



Lemnina GRAY, Thomson's Ann. Philos., XXVI, p. 342, Nov,, 1825. 



Microtinae KHOADS, Am. Nat., XXIX, p. 940, Oct., 1895. 



MILLER, N. Am. Fauna, No. 12, p. 8, July, 1896. 

 JOndatrina GRAY, Thomson's Ann. Philos., XXVI, p. 341, Nov., 1825. 



Name, authority, and date. Type or included species. 



Agricola Blasius, 1857 Arvicola agrestis. 



Alticola Blanford, 1881 Arvicola stoliczkanus. 



Alviceola Blainville, 1817 ' Le genre campagnol.' (Misprint for 



Arvicola ?) 

 Ammomys Bonaparte, 1831 . . . New name for Psammomys Le Conte. 



Anaptogonia Cope, 1871 Arvicola hiatidens. 



Anteliomys Miller, 1896 Microtus chinensis. 



Arvicola Lacepede, 1801 Mus amphibius (= M.terrestris Linn.) 



Aulacomys Rhoads, 1894 Aulacomys arvicoloides. 



Bicunedens Hodgson, 1863 Bicunedens perfuscus (nomen nudum 



= Neodon sikimensis). 



Borioikon Poliakoff, 1881 Myodes torquatus. 



Brachyurus Fischer, 1813 Musarvalis, M. rutilus, M. amphibius, 



M. lemmus, M. torquatus, M. allia- 



rius, Brachyurus blumenbachii, B. 



fulvus, B. niloticus. 



Bramus Pomel, 1892 Bramus barbarus. 



f Campicola Schulze, 1890 Arvicola arvalis, A. subterraneus, A. 



campestris. 

 Chilotus Baird, 1857 Arvicola oregoni. 



1 Preoccupied by Ellobiinse, a subfamily of Mollusks. See Adams, Gen. 

 Recent Moll., II, p. 237, 1858. 



