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T. urivau Frisch, and T. minima Frisch; see Palmer, North Amer. Fauna 

 No. 23, p. 660, Jan. 23, 1904. Names applied to genera rejected, since 

 Frisch is not consistently binomial; see Sherborn, Index animalium .... 

 p. xxv, 1902; Thomas and Miller, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 16, pp. 

 461-464, October 1905; and Hershkovitz, Journ. Mamm., vol. 29, No. 3, p. 

 272, Aug. 31, 1948.) 

 1825. Tamandua Gray, Ann. Philos., new ser., vol. 10, p. 343, November 

 1825. (Type, Myrmecophaga tamandua Cuvier=M. tetradactyla Linnaeus; 

 see Gray, London Med. Repos., vol. 15, No. 88, p. 305, Apr. 1, 1821.) 



Tamandua tetradactyla mexicana (Saussure)* 



1860. "Myrmecophaga tamandua (?), Desm. (Var. mexicana Sauss.)" Saus- 

 sure, Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris, ser. 2, vol. 12, p. 9, January 1860. 

 1884. Myrmecophaga quadridactyla True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., 



Circ. 29 ) , p. 588, Nov. 29, 1884. ( Part. ) 

 1889. Myrmecophaga sellata Cope, Amer. Nat., vol. 23, p. 133, February 

 1889. (Honduras. Regarded as valid by Lonnberg, Arkiv for Zool., vol. 

 29a, No. 19, p. 27, Aug. 9, 1937; and as probably identical with mexicana 

 by Reeve, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, vol. Ill, ser. A (Gen. and Exper.), 

 pts. 3-4, p. 301, Feb. 17, 1942.) 

 1904. Tamandua tetradactyla tenuirostris J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 



Hist., vol. 20, p. 394, Oct. 29, 1904. (Pasa Nueva, Veracruz, Mexico.) 

 1906. Tamandua tetradactyla mexicana J. A. Allen, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, vol. 19, p. 200, Dec. 31, 1906. 

 Type Locality. — Tabasco, Mexico. Range. — From northern Veracruz, Tabasco 

 and Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, south through Guatemala and British Hon- 

 duras (Murie, Univ. Michigan Mus. Zool. Misc. Publ. No. 26, pp. 29-30, July 

 15, 1935; Lonnberg, Arkiv for Zool., vol. 29a, No. 19, pp. 25-27, Aug. 9, 1937; 

 and Hershkovitz, Fieldiana-Zool., Chicago Nat. Hist. Mus. Publ. 670, vol. 31, 

 p. 568, July 10, 1951) to central Honduras (Goodwin, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 79, p. 149, May 29, 1942) . 



Tamandua tetradactyla chiriquensis J. A. Allen* 



1904. Tamandua tetradactyla chiriquensis J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 20, p. 395, Oct. 29, 1904. 



Type Locality. — Boqueron, Chiriqui, Panama. Range. — From Nicaragua (J. 

 A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 24, p. 648, Oct. 13, 1908) south through 

 Costa Rica (Goodwin, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 87, p. 355, Dec. 31, 1946) 

 and Panama to eastern Darien (Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 69, No. 

 5, pp. 62-64, Apr. 26, 1920) . Recorded also from San Jose Island, Archipielago 

 de las Perlas, Golfo de Panama (Kellogg, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 106, No. 7, 

 pp. 2-3, July 18, 1946) . 



Genus CYCLOPES Gray 

 1821. Cyclopes Gray, London Med. Repos., vol. 15, p. 305, (Type, Myrmeco- 

 phaga didactyla Linnaeus. For use of Cyclopes in place of Cyclothurus 

 Lesson, Nouveau tableau du regne Animal, . . . mammiferes, p. 152, 1842, 

 see Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. 15, p. 191, February 1895; 

 Palmer, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 13, p. 72, Sept. 28, 1899.) 



