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Genus CONEPATUS Gray. 



1837. Conepatus GRAY, Charlesworth's mag. nat. hist., i, p. 581. 

 November, 1837. Type. Conepatus humboldtii GRAY. 



" b Conepatus mapurito (Gmelin). 



1788. [Viverra] mapurito GMELIN, Syst. nat., i, p. 88. 



1875. Conepatus mapurito COUES, Bull. U. S. geol. and geog. 



surv. terr., 2d ser., i, p. 14. 

 1885. Conepatus mapurito TRUE, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., vn 



(1884), p. 609. 1885. 

 TYPE LOCALITY. Vicinity of Pamplona, State of Santander, 



Colombia. 



Genus TAXIDEA Storr. 



1780. Taxidea STORR, Prodr. meth. mamm., p. 34. Type. 

 Ursus taxus SCHREBER. 



Taxidea taxus (Schreber) . 



1778. Ursus taxus SCHREBER, Saugthiere, in, p. 520. 

 1885. Taxidea americana americana TRUE, Proc. U. S. nat. 

 mus., vn (1884), p. 609. 1885. 



1894. Taxidea taxus RHOADS, Amer. nat., xxvin, p. 524. 

 June, 1894. 



TYPE LOCALITY. Labrador and Hudson Bay. 



|Taxidea taxus berlandieri (Baird). 



1857. Taxidea berlandieri BAIRD, Mamm. N". Amer., p. 205. 

 1885. Taxidea americana berlandieri TRUE, Proc. U. S. nat. 

 mus., vii (1884), p. 609. 1885. 



1895. Taxidea taxus berlandieri ALLEN, Bull. Amer. mus. 

 nat. hist., vn, p. 256. June 29, 1895. 



TYPE LOCALITY. Llano Estacado, Texas, near border of New 

 Mexico. 



