AONY X—APHELISCUS. ea | 
Aonyx Lesson, 1827. Fer, Mustelidi> 
Man. Mammalogie, 1827, 157; W. L. ScLATER, Mamm. S. Africa, I, 106, 1900 (in 
synonomy ). 
Anonyx AaGAssiz, Nomenclator Zool, Index Univ., 24, 1846; 2d ed., 70, 1848; 
Covzs, Century Dict., I, 229, 1899. 
Type: Aonyx delalandi Lesson ( — Lutra capensis Schinz), from the salt lakes on 
the coast of Cape Colony, Africa. 
Aonyx: &, without; óvv&, claw, nail—‘clawless otter,’ from the very rudimentary 
claws. 
Aotes HuwBorpr, 1811. Primates, Cebidee. 
Recueil Observ. Zool. et Anat. Comp., I, 306—311, pl. xxvin, 1811. 
Aotus Humpoupt, Ibid., p. 358, 1811 (credited to Illiger, but apparently first pub- 
lished here); Humpoupt, in Illiger's Prodromus Syst. Mamm. et Avium, 71, 
1811; GnrrrrTH, Cuvier's Anim. Kingd., V, 35, 1827. 
Type: Simia trivirgata Humboldt, from Esmeralda, on the Orinoco, near the junc- 
tion of the Cassiquiare River, Venezuela. 
Aotes: à, without; ovs, órós ear—'earless, from the very short ears, which 
scarcely appear above the hair of the head. 
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Apara (subg. of Dasypus) (‘Cuvier’) McMurrriz 1881. Edentata, Dasypodidee. 
McMourrrte’s Cuvier, Anim. Kingdom, I, Mamin., 163, 1831; abridged ed., 94, 
1834. 
Type: Dasypus tricinctus Linneeus (the ‘Tatou apara’ of Marcgrave), from Para- 
guay and Brazil. 
Apara: South American name of the 3-banded armadillo. 
Apatemys Mamsu, 1872. Glires, Ischyromyidz? 
Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 3d ser., IV, 221-222, Sept., 1872 (sep., issued Aug. 17); 
MartrHew, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y., XII, 39, 1899; Hav, Cat. Foss. 
Vert. N. Am., Bull. 179, U. S. Geol. Surv., 725, 1902. 
Species: Apatemys bellus Marsh (type), and A. bellulus Marsh, from the Eocene 
of Henry Fork of Green River, Wyoming. 
Extinct. 
Apatemys: &z&rm5, deceit; 0s, mouse—from its combination of characters, 
the incisor being described as ‘rodent-like,’ while the molar is of the ‘insecti- 
vore type.’ 
Aper Parras, 1766. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suida. 
Miscellanea Zoologica, 16-29, tab. 11 and tv, figs. 1, 2, and 4, 1766; RAFINESQUE, 
Analyse de la Nature, 56, 1815 (new name for Sus Linn:eus *). 
Type: Notstated. Thegenus includes the domestic pig, Sus guineensis, ete., which 
are mentioned incidentally in the description of Aper «wthiopicus from Africa. 
Aper: Lat., wild boar. 
Apera AmeEGuHINo, 1886. Marsupialia, ? 
Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Córdaba, IX, 13-14, 1886. 
Type: Apera sanguinaria Ameghino, from the older Tertiary of Paraná, Argentina. 
Extinct. Based on the first upper premolar and a lower canine. 
Apera: a-, without; 77pa, pouch—in allusion to the absence of ‘‘la fisura per- 
pendicular esterna entre los dos lóbulos de la muela.^ 
Apheliscus Corr, 1875. Primates, Notharctidee. 
Syst. Cat. Vert. Eocene New Mexico, 13, 16-17, Apr. 17, 1875. 

***T could never believe it right to call animals by neutral names"! ( RAFINESQUE, 
Atlantic Journal No. 3, p. 112, 1832). In accordance with this rule, which he seems 
to have adopted in 1814, Rafinesque used Aper instead of Sus, Aries instead of Ovis, 
Caballus instead of Equus, Hircus instead of Capra, Taurus instead of Bos, etc. 
