106 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Anomodon Lr Contr, 1848. 1 Insectivora, Leptictidze? 
Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 2d ser., V, 106, 1 fig. in text, Jan., 1848. 
Type: Anomodon snyderi Le Conte, from the Pleistocene of ‘the lead region’ of 
northern Illinois. 
Extinct. Based on ‘‘a single tooth . . . supposed to be a superior left canine." 
Anomodon: drojuos, irregular; 00v —080vs, tooth—from the fact that the 
canine is much compressed and its fang flattened. 
Anomodontherium Mercerat, 1891. Ungulata, Litopterna, Proterotheriide. 
Revista Mus. La Plata, I, 450, 461-462, 1890-91. 
Type: Anomodontherium monianum Mercerat, from the Eocene of Monte Leon, 
Patagonia. 
Extinct. Based on two upper molars. 
Anomodontherium: &v ojos, irregular; 06@v=06o0vs, tooth; 67p£ov, wild beast. 
Anomolocera Gray, 1869. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervid:e. 
Scientific Opinion, London, II, 385-386, Oct. 6, 1869. 
[Proe. Zool. Soc., 1869, 497—499, figs. 1,2— Xenelaphus huamel. ] 
Anomalocera PuiLiPPr, Wiegmann's Archiv Naturgesch., XXXVI, Bd. I, 47, 
1870. 
Type: Anomolocera huamel Gray ( — Xenelaphus huamel), from Tinta, southern 
Peru. Referred to Capreolus leucotis Gray, but afterwards renamed NXenelaphus 
anomalocera. (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th ser., X, 445, Dec., 1872.) 
Name preoccupied by Anomalocera Templeton, 1857, a genus of Crustacea. 
Replaced by Xenelaphus Gray, 1869. 
Anomolocera: av@uados, irregular, anomalous; Képas, horn—from the fact that 
the horns are unlike those of any other deer. 
Anonyx Acassiz, 1846. Fer», Mustelide. 
Nomenclator Zool., Index Uniy., 24, 1846; 2d ed., 70, 1848; Cours, Century 
Dict:, [, 229; 1889; 
Emendation of Aonyx Lesson, 1827.  Preoccupied by Anonyx Kroyer, 1838, a 
genus of Crustacea. 
Anoplonassa Corr, 1869. Cete, Physeteridee. 
Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., XI, 188-190, pl. v; fig. v, 1869. 
Anoplossa M ARsCHALL, Nomenclator Zool., Mamm., 1, 1873 (misprint). 
Type: Anoplonassa forcipata Cope, from the Tertiary in the vicinity of Savannah, 
Georgia. 
Extinct. Based on ‘‘a considerable portion of the mandible.”’ 
Anoplonassa: &vozÀos, unarmed; &r«ó66a, queen. The mandible was 
described as like that of a Squalodon, but ‘‘strikingly different from the latter 
in being for the most part edentulous.”’ 
Anoplotherium G. Cuvier, 1804. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Anoplotheriide. 
Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, III. 370—382, figs. in pls. 31 et seq., 1804; Régne 
Animal, I, 238, 1817. 
Anaplotherium OKEN, Lehrbuch Naturgesch., 3ter Theil, 2te Abth., 773-775, 1816. 
Species, 3: Anoplotherium medium G. Cuvier; A. minus G. Cuvier, and A. 
minimum G. Cuvier, from the Eocene gypsum beds of the Paris basin, France. 
Extinct. 
Anoplotherium: dvordos, unarmed; 65píor, wild beast—in allusion to the 
absence of horns and claws. According to Laurillard in allusion to the canines, 
which differ very little from the incisors and thus were not available as weap- 
ons of defense. (D’Orprany’s Diet. Univ. Hist. Nat., I, 566.) 
Anotis RariNEsQUE, 1815. Glires, Spalacidee. 
Analyse de la Nature, 58, 1815. 
New name for Talpoides Lacépede, 1799 (‘Anotis R. Talpoides 1’). 
Anotis: &v-, without; ovc, @rds, ear. 
