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Anotus (subgenus of Sorex) WAaNER, 1855. Insectivora, Soricia:e. 
Suppl. Schreber’s Saugthiere, V, 550—551, 1855. 
Type: Sorex carolinensis Bachman, from Goose Creek, South Carolina. — ( Anotus 
Wagner = Blarina Gray, 1858.) 
Name preoccupied by Anotis Rafinesque, 1815, a genus cf Glires. 
Anotus: &v- without; ovs, Oróc, ear—in allusion to the apparent absence of ears, 
due to their concealment by dense hair (compare Cryptotis ). 
Anoura Gray, 1033. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatide. 
Jardine’s Mag. Zool. & Bot., II, 490, 1858. 
Anura Acassiz, Nomenclator Zool., Index Univ., 27, 1846; 2d ed., 71, 77, 1848; 
Tuomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1893, 335. 
Type: Anoura geoffroyi Gray, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 
Anoura: dv-, without; ovpa, tail—in allusion to the absence of a tail. 
Anourosorex MILNE-Epwarps, 1870. Insectivora, Soricid:e. 
Comptes Rendus, Paris, LX X, 341, 1870; Recherches Hist. Nat. Mamm., 264-266, 
1868-74. 
Anaurosorex GUNTHER, Zool. Record for 1870, VIT, Mamm., 9, 1871. 
Anurosorex ANDERSON, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th ser., XVI, 282, 1875. 
Type: Anourosorex squamipes Milne-Ed wards, from eastern Tibet. 
Anourosorex: &v-, without; ovpa, tail; + Sorex—trom the very short tail. 
Antaodon AmeEGuHino, 1886. Ungulata, Perissodactyla, Tapirid:e. 
Bol. Aead. Nae. Cien. Córdoba, IX, 151-156 footnote, 1886; Act. Acad. Nac. 
Cien., Córdoba, VI, 496-499, pl. xxxiii, fig. 6, 1889. 
Antacodon Roger, Bericht Naturwiss. Ver., Schwaben u. Neuburg, XXXII, 247, 
1896 (misprint). 
Type: Antaodon cinctus Ameghino, from “las toscasdel fondo del Ríode La Plata," 
province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
Extinct. Based on an upper molar. 
Antaodon: Anta, Brazilian name of the tapir; 06@v=06ovs, tooth—in allusion 
to the upper molars. 
Antechinomys Krerrt, 1866. Marsupialia, Dasyuridee. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1866, 434. 
Type: Phascogale lanigera Gould, from the junction of the Murray and Darling 
rivers, New South Wales, Australia. 
Antechinomys: Antechinus; je0s, mouse. 
Antechinus MacLeay, 1841. Marsupialia, Dasyurid:e. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., VIII, 242, pl. 7, Dec., 1841; Gray, List Osteol. Spec. 
Brit. Mus., pp. xi, 30, 1847. 
Type: Antechinus stuartii MacLeay (=Phascogale flavipes Waterhouse), from 
Spring Cove, near Sydney, New South Wales. 
Antechinus: &vri, corresponding to, like; éy7vos, sea urchin. 
Anteliomys (subgenus of Microtus) Mituer, 1896. Glires, Muridze, Microtinee. 
N. Am. Fauna, No. 12, pp. 9, 47-49, fig. 23, pl. 11 fig. 8, July 25, 1896. 
Type: Microtus chinensis Thomas, from Kiating-fu, west Sze-chuen, China. 
Anteliomys: dvr9Ais, eastern; “0s, mouse—from the habitat. 
Antelopus (see Antilope). Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidee. 
Antelotherium (see Antoletherium). Ungulata, Proboscidea, Dinotheriidee. 
Antepithecus AwEaGniNo, 1901. Primates, Notopithecidze. 
Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Córdoba, XVI, 356-357, July, 1901 (sep. pp. 10-11). 
Type: Antepithecus brachystephanus Ameghino, from the ‘Cretaceous’ of Patagonia 
Extinet. 
Antepithecus: Lat. «nte, before; pithecus, ape. 
