CARNIVORA: VTVERRIDAE 767 



Enhydra lutris lutris (Linneaus) * 



1758. [Mustela] lutris Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 45. 

 1843. Enhydra lutris Gray, List of . . . Mammalia in the . . . British Mu- 

 seum, p. 72. 

 1884. Enhydris lutris True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Grc. 29), 



p. 609, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 Type Locality. — Kamchatka. Range. — Kamchatka to western Aleutian 

 Islands, Alaska. 



Enhydra lutris nereis (Merriam)f* 



1904. Latax lutris nereis Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 17, p. 159, 

 Oct. 6, 1904. (Regarded as invalid by Scheffer and Wilke, Journ. Wash- 

 ington Acad. Sci., vol. 40, No. 8, p. 272, Aug. 15, 1950. According to Pohle, 

 Arch. Naturg., Jahrg. 85, Abt. A, No. 9, p. 170, 1919, the name nereis is 

 antedated by Lutra gracilis Bechstein, Thomas Pennant's allgemeine Ueber- 

 sicht der vierf iissigen Thiere . . . , p. 408, 1800. Hollister, Journ. Mamm., 

 vol. 2, No. 3, p. 177, Aug. 19, 1921, regards the name gracilis as a synonym 

 of Mustela lutris Linnaeus. Staten Island [= Isla de los Estados], the 

 type locality for gracilis, is separated from Tierra del Fuego by Le Maire 

 Strait and the description seems applicable to the South American otter.) 

 1923. Enhydra lutris nereis Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 21, 



No. 10, p. 316, Jan. 27, 1923. 

 Type Locality. — San Miguel Island, Santa Barbara Islands, Calif. Range. — 

 Ocean around islands and along coasts of Washington, Oregon (V. Bailey, North 

 Amer. Fauna No. 56 (June), p. 303, Aug. 29, 1936), California (Grinnell, 

 Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 40, No. 2, p. 104, Sept. 26, 1933), and Baja 

 California at least as far south as Sebastian Vizcaino Bay (Scammon, The marine 

 mammals of the northwestern coast of North America, p. 169, 1874) . 



Superfamily FELOIDEA 

 Family Viverridae 



Subfamily herpestinae (mongooses) 



Genus HERPESTES Illiger 

 1811. Herpestes Illiger, Prodromus systematis Mammalium et Avium . . . , 

 p. 135. (Type, Viverra ichneumon Linnaeus. For use of this name in place 

 of Mungos £. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire and G. Cuvier see J. A. Allen, Journ. 

 Mamm., vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 27-30, Nov. 28, 1918.) 



Herpestes auropunctatus auropunctatus (Hodgson) * 



1836. Mangusta auropunctata Hodgson, Journ, Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 5, 

 p. 235. 



1911. Mungos birmanicus G. M. Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 54, p. 217, 

 July 1911. (Misidentification of the mongoose introduced in the West 

 Indies.) 



1937. Herpestes javanicus auropunctatus Pocock, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. 

 Soc, vol. 39, No. 2, p. 242, Apr. 15, 1937. (Reidentification of the mon- 

 goose introduced in the West Indies.) 



