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Ailurus-- Continued. 
Ailurius: atÀovpos, cat, later a weasel (perhaps from aZóAosc, quick moving, and 
ovp, tail)—so called from its resemblance exteriorly to a cat. '*This was 
not a very happy choice, as in all structural characters indicative of true 
affinity it is almost as widely removed from the true Cats as any member of 
the group of terrestrial Carnivora."  (Frowzm, |. c., 753.) 
Akenodon Aymarp, 1856. Edentata ? 
Congrés Sci. France (1855), 5 233, 265, 1856 (nomen nudum?); GERvars, Zool. 
et Paléont. Frangaises, éd. 2, 255, 1859; FrrHor, Ann. Sci. Géol, Paris, XII, 
art. 3, p. 3, 1882. 
Type: Akenodon primevus Aymard, from the Lower Miocene of Ronzon, near Puy 
en Velay, France. 
Extinet. 
Akenodon: &?», point; 00r -—0807ve, tooth. 
Akodon Mryen, 1833. Glires, Murid:e, Cricetinze. 
Nova Acta Acad. Cos. Leop.-Carol., XVI, pt. 1r, 599-600, tab. xii, fig. 1, 183: 
Reise um die Erde, III, 1834. 
Acodon AGassiz, Index Univ., 5, 1846; 2d ed., 12, 1848; Tuowas, Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist., 6th ser., XIV, No. 83, 360-364, Nov. 1, 1894. 
Axodon GrgBEL, Odontographie, 48, 1855 (emendation ). 
Type: Akodon boliviense Meyen, from Pichu-pichun (alt. 14,000 feet), Peru. 
Akodon: &x», point; 650v—oddo0vs, tooth. 
Alachtherium Dv Bvs, 1867. Ferz, Pinnipedia, Odobenid:e. 
3ull. Acad. Roy Sci. Belgique, 2° sér., X XIV, 566, 1867. 
Alachterium VAN BENEDEN, ibid., XX XII, 181, 1871; XLI, 794, 1876 (misprint). 
Type: Alachtherium cretsii Du Bus, from the Upper Crag of the Fort de Wyne- 
ghem, near Antwerp, Belgium. 
Extinct. Based on ‘‘une moitié complete de máchoire inférieure." 
Alactaga (see Allactaga). Glires, Dipodidz. 
Alactagulus (subg. of Alactaga) NeHrrina, 1897. Glires, Dipodid:e. 
Sitzungsb. Ges. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin, Nr. 9, pp. 151-154, fig. 1, Nov. 16, 1897. 
Type: Alactaga acontion ( — Dipus acontion Pallas), from south western Siberia. 
Alactagulus: Dim. of Alactaga. 
Alastor WeirHorer, 1887. Chiroptera, Rhinolophide. 
“Anz. Math.-Naturwiss. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 285, 1887"' (fide Zool. Rec. 
for 1887, Mamm., 30); Sitzungsber. Math.-Naturwiss. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss. 
Wien, XCVI, Abth. I, für Jun.-Dec., 1887, 350-351, Taf. figs. 5-8, 1888. 
Type: Alastor heliophygas Weithofer, from the Quercy C ONCOd dis of Escampes, 
near Lablengue, Dépt. Lot, France. 
Extinct. Based on a skull without the lower jaw. 
Alastor: ' AA&6rcp, a surname of Zeus, the avenging deity, lit., the unforgetting. 
Albertogaudrya Amecurno, 1901. 
Ungulata, Astrapotheroidea (Albertogaudryid:e). 
Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Córdoba, X VI, 399-400, July, 1901 (sep. pp. 53-54). 
Type: Albertogaudrya unica Ameghino, from the ‘Cretaceous’ of Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Albertogaudrya: In honor of Albert Gaudry, 1827-, professor of Paleontology in 
the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris; author of ‘Animaux Fossiles et 
Géologie de l' Attique,^ 1862-67, * Enchainements du Monde Animal,’ 1878-96, 
etc. 
Alce Frisch, 1775. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervidee. 
Das Natur-System vierfüss. Thiere, in Tabellen, 3, Tab. Gen., 1775; H. Smrru, 
Griffith’s Cuvier, Anim. Kingdom, V, 303-304, 1827. 
