90 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Alouatta—Continued. A 
Alouata 'TRovEsSART, Cat. Mamm., new ed., I, 32-34, 1897. 
Type: Simia beelzebul Linn:zeus, from Brazil. 
Alouatta: Native name. 
Alticamelus MarrHew, 1901. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Camelidee. 
Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York, I,.pt. vir, 426, 429-432, pl. xxxix, Nov., 
1901. 
Type: Procamelus altus Marsh, from the Miocene (Loup Fork beds) of the John 
Day basin, Oregon. 
Extinet. Based on a skull, and bones of the neck and hind limb. 
Alticamelus: Lat. altus, high; -}+- Camelus—in allusion to the long neck, which gives 
the animal almost the height of a modern giraffe. 
Alticola (subgenus of Arvicola) BraxrFonp, 1881. Glires, Murid:e, Microtinee. 
Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, L, pt. ir, 93, 95, 96, pl. 1 figs. B-E, July 30, 1881; 
Fauna British India, Mamm., 430, 1888-91; MirLER, N. Am. Fauna, No. 12, 
52-54, pl. rr fig. 4, text figs. 26-27, July 23, 1896; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Phila., 1899, 291-297, fig. 4. 
Type: Arvicola stoliczkanus Blanford, from the high plateaus of northern Ladák, 
western Tibet. 
Alticola: Lat. altus, high; colo, to dwell, to inhabit—from the animals elevated 
habitat at altitudes of 9,000 to 10,000 feet or more. 
Aluatta (see Alouatta ). Primates, Cebid:e. 
Alus Gray, 1825. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervid:e? 
TuHomson’s Annals Philos., XXVI, 342, Nov., 1825. 
Nomen nudum (ex Pliny ). 
Alviceola DraiNviLLE, 1817. Glires, Murid:e, Microtinee. 
Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., IX, 287-288, 1817. 
‘Le Genre Campagnol; type species not mentioned. Probably a misprint for 
Arvicola Lacépéde, 1799. 
Amarorhynchus AMEGHINO, 1894. Edentata, Megalonychid:e. 
Enum. Synop. Mamm. Foss. Form. Eoctnes Patagonie, 147, Feb., 1894. 
Type: Amarorhynchus latus Ameghino, from the Eocene of Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Amarorhynchus: &u&pa, channel; PUvyyos, snout—in allusion to the lower jaw. 
‘“Mandibule courte, haute et large, avec la symphyse profondement excavée 
et qui termine dans un espéce de bee large, plat, et arrondi." (AMEGHINO. ) 
Ambliodon JourpAN, 1837. Feree, Viverridze. 
Comptes Rendus, Paris, V, 445-446, 1837; BrarNviLLE, Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, 
2° sér., VILI, 276, 1837. 
Amblyodon Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 541-542. 
Type: ‘L’ambliodon doré? (Paradoxurus auratus Blainville— P. jourdanii Gray), 
from India. (See Gray, l. c., p. 542.) 
Ambliodon: &ufA vc, blunt; 06v —080vc, tooth—from the blunt, rounded cusps 
of the posterior premolar and of the molars. 
Amblirhiza (see Amblyrhiza). Glires, Castoroidide. 
Ambloctonus Corr, 1875. Creodonta, Ambloctonid:e. 
Syst. Cat. Vert., Eocene New Mexico, 5, 7-9, Apr. 17, 1875; Rept. U. 8. Geol. 
Survey West 100th Merid., IV, pt. u, 90-94, pl. xxxii, 1877. 
Amblyctonus Corr, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., XIX, 79, 80, 1880. 
Amblyctomus Corn, in Scudder's Nomenclator Zool., pt. 1, 360; pt. 11, 195, 1882; 
Trovessart, Cat. Mamm. Viv. et Foss., Carnivores, 8, 1885. 
Type: Ambloctonus sinosus Cope, from the Eocene of New Mexico. 
