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Till': JJATIiACIlIA (»!• N<>in'll AMKIilCA. 



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(lid iit»t fiivi' ilistiiictive naiiiL'S I'or tliu groups which he luoposed, which 

 wt'ic very iirliliciiil. 



!>ion(/iii(tr( published lii.s system iu I80()-'()3, in the Meiuoire.s de.s 

 SiiViUis lOtraiijfc'i'sde I'liistitiit. lie did not distiuyuisli the Ijiitrachiii 

 as a chiss IVoiu the JJeptilia, but h(^ distinj;uished it lirst as a natural 

 jjfroiip and named it. Ih; divided the lieptilia into the (bur irders, Che- 

 Ionia, Sauria, Ophidia, and IJatraehia. lie placed the salanmnt'ers in 

 tlni IJatiachia Ibrthetirst tinu'. 



LntrciUe published a system of Keptilia in tho Nouveau Dictionaire 

 d' llistoire Naturelle in ISOi, Vol. xxiv, paj^'e (Jl. lie adoi)ts the sys- 

 tem of Ilrongniart. The Batrachia are divided into two sections: I 

 />. (vurcurs, aiul 1 1 li. pisciforuics. The secoiul section included the gei;- 

 era Proteus and Siren; section I, all other Batrachia known to the 

 anihoi'. In l.S2r> Latreille published another classification iu the bro- 

 chure "Les Families Natunlles du Hegne Animal." lie divides the 

 vertebiata into warm-blooded (llaemathermes) and cold-blooded (llae- 

 maerymes). The latter include Pulmonees antl Solibranches. Tiie lat- 

 ter includes the lishes. The Ibrmer division has two subdivisions, Wep- 

 tiles and Am|)hibia or Batrachia. We here find the system of Do 

 IJlainville adoi)ted in the reco;;nition of the Batrachia as distinct from 

 the Keptilia, and the na!;ie Amphii)ia is used for it for the first time. 



Daudin in l.SO'.'-Hl.'i ])ublished his Trait6 (ienerale. He adopted the 

 classifu'ation of Brongniart. 



Dnnieril, in ISOt, in the Traite elementaire d'histoire naturelle, also 

 adopted the system of Bron<;'niart. He placed the Cu'ciliidie among 

 (he Ophidia. In his ZoiUogie Analyti(pu', published in 1807, he followed 

 I he same arrangeuuMit, and divided the Batrachia into Auura and Uro- 

 dela. The latter included four genera: Triton, Salamaiulra, Proteus, 

 and Siren. 



lAtnitirck, in 1S()!>, published a Distribution (ien«''rale des Auimaux, as 

 I he (chapter viil of the Philosophie Zoiilogique. He did not distinguish 

 the Batrachia from the Keptilia as a class, bat recognized the four 

 orders of Kejjtilia already proposed by P>rougniart. The Batrachia are 

 divided into two divisions: Urodelii and Anura. (Jcecilia is placed in 

 the serpents. 



CkvIck, in the Le(M)ns d'Anatomie Comparee, in 1801), and in the 

 Kegiie Animal, in 1817, adopteil the system of Jirongniart. In the 

 si'cond edition of tlie lattei', pul»lished in 182!) he divides the Batrachia 

 into live genera, vi/ : C(ecilia, Kana, Salamaiulra, Proteus, and Siren. 



Opjxl published his "Ordnungen Familien u. Gattungen der Kep- 

 liiien" in 1811 (Munich). lie adopts the class name llei)tilia, and 

 divides it into three orders : Testudinata, S(piainata (snakes and lizaids), 

 and Xiida or Batrachia. The Batrachia are divided into three families ; 

 the Apoda (('(cciliida), ICcaudata or Aniira, and the I'rodela. 



!>(■ lUdinriUe published in ISKI in the Xoiiveau liulletin des Sciences 

 <Ie la Soctiete Pliilomathicpit^ of Paris a Prodrome d'une uouv. distribu- 

 1U521— Bull. .'51 '1 



