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Astraponotus AwkGnHriNo, 1901. Ungulata, Astrapotheroidea, Astrapotheriide. 
Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Córdoba, XVI, 401—402, July, 1901 (sep., pp. 55-56). 
Type: Astraponotus assymetrum Ameghino, from the ‘Cretaceous’ of Patagonia. 
Extinct. . 
Astraponotus: Astrapo(therium); vóros, south—in allusion to its Patagonian 
habitat. , 
Astrapothericulus AwxEcnrwNo, 1901. Ungulata, Astrapotheriidee. 
Anal. Soc. Cien. Argentina, LI, 73, Mar.-Apr., 1901; Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. 
Córdoba, XVII, 101-102, May, 1902 (sep. pp. 33-34—type fixed). 
Species: Astrapothericulus iheringi. (=Astrapotherium iheringi Ameghino, type), 
and A. hebetatus Ameghino, from the Patagonian formation (Eocene) of 
Patagonia. d 
Extinct. 
Astrapothericulus: Dim. of Astrapotherium. 
Astrapotherium Burmeisrer, 1879. Ungulata, Astrapotheroidea, Astrapotheriidee. 
Desc. Phys. Repüb. Argentine, III, Mamm., 517—520, 1879. 
Type: Astrapotherium patagonicum Burmeister, from the headwaters of the Rio 
Santa Cruz, Patagonia. 
Extinct. Based on ‘‘la moitié postérieure d'un crane . . . et une seule dent 
molaire, la derniere du cóté gauche à sa place." 
Astrapotherium: à6rpa«z», lightning; 605oíov, wild beast. ‘‘Je propose, vu 
lanalogie de cet animal avec le Brontotherium, de lui donner le nom de 
Astrapotheriwm." (BURMEISTER. ) 
Astromycter Harris, 1825. Insectivora, Talpidee. 
Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, IX, 400, June, 1825 (from Machias, Maine, ‘Star’); Rarr- 
NESQUE, Atlantic Journ., I, No. 2, p. 61, summer of 1832; AGassiz, Nomenclator 
Zool., Mamm., 2, 1842; PoMEL, Archiv. Sci. Phys. et Nat., Bibl. Univ. Genéve, 
IX, 246, Nov., 1848. 
Astromyctes Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pp. xxi, 76, 1843. 
Astromydes Buytu, ** Cat. Mamm. Asiat. Soc. Mus., 87, 1865" (fide Dosson, Mon. 
Insect., II, 131, 1883). 
Type: <Astromycter prasinatus Harris [=Condylura cristata (Linneeus)], from 
Machias, Maine. The full description of the species appeared in the Boston 
Journ. Philos. & Arts, II, 580-583, 1825, under the name Condylura prasinata 
Harris. 
Astromycter: à6r)»)p, star; uvr?))p, nose—from the star-like ring of appendages 
at the end of the nose, whence the common name ‘star-nosed mole.’ 
Atalapha RaFrinesqueE, 1814. Chiroptera, Vespertilionidee. 
Précis Découv. et Trav. Somiologiques entre 1800 et 1814, p. 12, 1814; Analyse de 
la Nature, 54, 1815; Desmarest, Mammalogie, I, 146, 1820. 
Atalepha Burnett, Quart. Journ. Sci. Lit. & Art, XXVII, 269, Apr.-June, 1829. 
Species: Atalapha sicula Rafinesque, from Sicily; and A. americana Ratinesque 
(= Vespertilio noveboracensis Erxleben), from North America. 
Atalapha: Ataleph, Hebrew name of a bat. 
Atelerix (subgenus of Erinaceus) PowEL, 1848. Insectivora, Erinaceidz. 
Archiv. Sci. Phy. et Nat., Bibl. Univ. Genéve, IX, 251, Nov., 1848. 
Type species not given. ‘‘Genre Erinaceus, 8. G. Atelerix (4-dactylus)." 
Atelerix: Contraction of @reAns, imperfect; ericius, hedge hog. 
Ateles E. Grorrroy, 1806. Primates, Cebidee. 
Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, VII, 262-269, 1806; Miter & Renn, Proc. Boston 
Soc. Nat. Hist., XX X, 298-299, Dec., 1901 (type fixed). 
Ateleus, Atelius Fiscngn, Zoognosia, II, 529-532, 1813. 
Atheles R6 PeELL, Mus. Senckenberg., III, Heft rr, 152, 1842. 
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