1010.] Taxonomic Hi.slori/ of Edentates. ■ 333 



Quaclrupeds": "4. Without cuttino- teeth, Sloth and aniuuHIlo." "5. 

 Without teeth; Mauis, Ant Eater." 



1778. Pallas .describes the "Aard Vark" under the name Myrmcco- 

 phaga africaniim. 



1779-1797. Blumenbach puts the edentates ("Bruta") in the order 

 "Digitata" as a group (C) coordinate with (B) the "Digitata Ferje" and (A) 

 the "Digitata Glires." 



1792. Vicq d'Azyr applies the term "Edentati" to the "Paresseux," 

 "Tatous," "Fourmiliers," "Pangolins." 



1795. Geoft'roy and Cuvier remove Bradi/pus to the order " Tardigrades." 



1800. Cuvier includes EcJiidna in " les Edentes," brackets Megatherium 

 and Brady pus ("les Paresseux") as the sole occupants of "les Tardigrades." 



1817. Cuvier divides "les Edentes" into "les Tardigrades (Paresseux, 

 Megatherium)"; "Edentes ordinaires (Tatous, Orycteropes, Fourmiliers, 

 Pangolins)"; "Monotremes (Echidnes, Ornithorinques)." 



1811. Illiger adds Prochilus (Melursus) to the Tardigrada, groups 

 Dasypus, Orycteropus and Manis as "Effodientia," and removes Echidna 

 and Ornithorhynchus to a separate order "Reptantia." 



1816. De Blainville associates Brady pus with Galeopithecus and removes 

 the Tardigrades to a subordinal group "anomaux" of "les Quadrumanes" 

 at the same time associating "les Edentes" (as a suborder "normaux") with 

 "les Cetaces" (as a suborder "anomaux") under the "ordre Edentes." 



1839. De Blainville, after long discussion, provisionally leaves Bradypus 

 in "les Primates," but treats the other Edentates as a grand division "Mal- 

 dentes" of "les Monodelphes," contrasting with all the other Monodelphians 

 ("Bien dentes"); this foreshadows Thomas's " Paratheria." 



1842. Owen reunites Bradypus with Edentates, dividing the order Bruta 

 thus: 



Tribus Phyllophaga: "Familia" Tardigrada, Bradypus, Cholccpus; 

 Familia Gravigrada, Megalonyx, Megatherium, Mylodon, Scelidotherium, 

 Ccelodon, Sphenodon. 



Tribus Loricata: Armadillos [and Glyptodonts ?]. 



Tribus Edentata: Anteaters (Myrmecophaga, Orycteropus, Pangolins). 



1855. P. Gervais proposes to elevate the Edentates to the rank of a sub- 

 class (Weber, 1904, p. 412). 



1872. Huxley divides the Edentata or Bruta into the Phytophaga or 

 vegetable feeders, and the Entomophaga or insect feeders as follows : 



Phytophaga^: Tardigrada, Gravigrada; 



Entomophaga^: Mutica (Myrmecophagus and Cyclothurus), Squamata 



' "Phytophaga" used by Wagner, "Entomophaga" used by Tschudi, both in Wiegmann's 

 Archiv. Naturgesch. Bd. II, 1844 (communicated by Dr. T. S. Palmer). 



