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Ascogale GrocEnR, 1841. Marsupialia, Dasyuridee. 
Hand- u. Hilfsbuch Naturgesch., I, pp. xxx, 83, 1841; Tnowas, Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist., 6th ser., XV, 190, Feb. 1, 1895. 
Apparently only a new name for Phascogale Temminck, 1827. 
Ascogale: a6K 0s, a skin made into a bag; ya, weasel—in allusion to the 
pouch, which is represented merely by a few folds of skin. 
Ascomys LicurENSTEIN, 1825. Glires, Geomyid:e. 
Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, for 1822, 20, fig. 2, 1825; Merriam, N. Am. Fauna, 
No. 8, 120, Jan. 31, 1895 (in synonymy, locality corrected). 
Type: Ascomys canadensis Lichtenstein (= Mus bursarius Shaw), nominally from 
Canada, but probably from the upper Mississippi Valley. (See Geomys Rafi- 
nesque, 1817.) 
Ascomys: Q6K6s, a skin made into a bag, i. e., a pouch; “0s, mouse—in allusion 
to the external cheek pouches, 
Ascopharynx Wairr, 1900. Glires, Murid:e, Murine. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th.ser., V, 223, Feb., 1900. 
New name for Thylacomys Waite, 1898, which is preoccupied by Thylacomys 
Owen, 1840, a genus of Marsupialia. 
Ascopharinz: G6K0s, bag; Padpvyé, throat—in allusion to the throat pouch. 
Asellia (subgenus of Hipposideros) Gray, 1888. Chiroptera, Rhinolophidee. 
Jardine’s Mag. Zool. & Bot., II, 495, 1838; Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 
pp. xix, 24, 1843 (raised to generic rank); Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1866, 82. 
Type: Rhinolophus tridens Geoftroy, from Egypt. 
Asellia: Adjective used as a noun, from Latin asellus, a little ass—probably in 
allusion to the long, pointed ears. 
Asinus Fniscu, 1775. Ungulata, Perissodactyla, Equidee. 
Das Natur-System vierfüss. Thiere, in Tabellen, Tab. Gen., 1775; Gray, Zool. 
Journ., I, 244-248, pl. v, June, 1824. 
Type: ‘Der Esel. Gray’s genus includes 5 species; Equus hemionus Pallas, and 
E. asinus Linneeus (type), from Asia; KE. quagga Gmelin, Asinus burchellii 
Gray, and Equus zebra Linn:eus, from Africa. 
Asinus: Lat., ass. 
Asmithwoodwardia AmMEGHINO, 1901. Ungulata, Condylarthra, Phenacodontide. 
Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Córdoba, X VI, 379-380, July, 1901 (sep. pp. 33-34). 
Type: Asmithwoodwardia subtrigona Ameghino, from the ‘Cretaceous’ of Pata- 
gonia.. 
Extinct. 
Asmithwoodwardia: In honor of Arthur Smith Woodward, 1864—, assistant keeper 
of geology in the Natural History Museum, London; author of ‘Catalogue of 
Fossil Fishes in the British Museum,’ 1889-1901, and numerous publications on 
extinct vertebrates, especially fishes. 
Asmodeus AmMEGHINO, 1895. Ungulata, Ancylopoda, Homalodontotheriid:e. 
Bol. Inst. Geog. Argentino, XV, cuad. 11-12, p. 645, 1895 (sep. pp. 43-44). 
Species: Asmodeus scotti Ameghino, and A. osborni Ameghino, from the Pyrothe- 
rium beds in the interior of Patagonia. 
Extinct. A. scotti is based principally on some upper maxillaries, more or less 
perfect, and A. osborni on a perfect calcaneum. 
Asmodeus: Heb. Ashmodoi, Destroyer (derived by some from Heb. samad, to 
destroy; probably of Persian origin). In later Jewish demonology, a destructive 
demon. (Century Dict.) 
Aspalax DrswanrsT, 1804. Glires, Spalacidee. 
Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., XXIV, Tab. Méth. Mamm., 24, 1804; Murreap, in 
Brewster’s Edinburgh Encyclopeedia, XIII, 438, 1830 (under Mazology). 
Type: Mus typhlus Linnzeus, from Russia. (See Spalax Güldenstadt, 1770.) 
Aspalax: a6rdAaé = óz&Aa£, mole. 
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