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CH ZROPITHECUS—CH ZTOMYS. IW 
Cheropithecus— Continued. 
Cheropithecus Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pp. xvii, 1845 (synonym of 
Cynocephalus). 
Species: ‘les Cynocéphales’ of Africa. 
Cheropithecus: yotpos, hog; 7i05«os, ape. 
Cheropithecus Gray, 1870. Primates, Cercopithecid:e. 
Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs & Fruit-eating Bats Brit. Mus., 5, 35, 1870. 
Type: Simia leucophza F. Cuvier, from Africa. 
Name antedated by Drill Reichenbach, 1862. 
Not Choiropithecus Reichenbach, 1862 (based on Simia porcarius), which ante- 
dates Gray's genus by eight years; nor Chzropithecus Blainville, 1839, based 
on ‘les Cynocéphales.’ 
Cheropithecus: yotpos, hog; zi05n«os, ape. 
Cheropotamus Cuvier, 1821. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suidee. 
* Analyse des Trav. de l’ Acad. des Sciences, 9, 1821’’ (fide Drsmaresr). 
DesMAREsT, Mammalogie, II, Suppl., 544—545, 1822. 
** Cheropotamus Cuvier, Recherches Ossem. Foss., 2° éd., III, 260, 1822."* 
Type: Charopotamus gypsorum Cuvier, from the Eocene of the Paris basin, France. 
Extinct. 
Chzeropotamus (Cheropotamus): xo?pos, hog; zorajtóc, river—'river-hog? (com- 
pare Hyopotamus). 
Cheropus OairBy, 1838. Marsupialia, Peramelid:e. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, No. rxmr, 25-27, July, 1838 (provisional name). 
Cheropus GRAY, in Mitchell’s Three Expds. E. Australia, IT, pl. 27, 1859; WarEn- 
HovsE; Nat. Hist. Mamm., I, Marsupiata, 388-393, 1846; THomas, Cat. Marsup. 
& Monotrem. Brit. Mus., 250-251, 1888 (discards ecaudatus as inappropriate 
and adopts Gray's Cheropus castanotis as type of the genus). 
Type: Perameles ecaudata Ogilby (—Chaoropus castanotis Gray, 1842), from the 
' Murray River, New South Wales, Australia. 
Cheropus ( Cheropus): xozpos, hog; zovs, foot—in allusion to the striking resem- 
blance of the fore feet to those of a pig. 
Cheerotherium (see Cherotherium). Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suidee. 
Cheetocercus Krerrt, 1866. Marsupialia, Dasyuride. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1866, 454—455, pl. 36. 
Type: Chetocercus cristicauda Krefft, from South Australia, probably in the 
vicinity of Lake Alexandrina. 
Name preoccupied by Ch:etocereus G. R. Gray, 1855, a genus of Birds. Replaced 
by Dasycercus Peters, 1875. 
Chetocercus: yaitn, hair, mane; KépKos, tail—in allusion to the crested, com- 
pressed tail. 
Cheetodipus (subgenus of Perognathus) Merriam, 1889. Glires, Heteromyidee. 
N. Am. Fauna, No. 1, pp. 5, 21-22, pl. m1, fig. 15, Oct. 25, 1889; Osaoop, N. Am. 
Fauna, No. 18, pp. 14, 41-62, pls. 1 figs. 5-8, r1 4-9, rv, text figs. 2, 10-15, Sept. 
20, 1900. 
Type: Perognathus (Chextodipus) spinatus Merriam, from the lower Colorado 
River, 25 miles below the Needles, San Bernardino County, California. 
Chetodipus: xairn, hair; -- Dipus—in allusion to the stiff hairs on certain parts 
of the body, in comparison with the soft pelage of Perognathus proper. 
Chetomys Gray, 1843. Glires, Erethizontid:e. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, No. cxxi, 21-22, July, 1843; WarERHOUSE, Nat. Hist. 
Mamm., II, Rodentia, 399—404, pl. 21, fig. 1, 1848. 
Type: Hystrix subspinosus Lichtenstein, from Brazil. 
Chetomys: xo£ry, hair; “0s, mouse—from the pelage, which consists of short, 
rather flexible spines; or, as described by Waterhouse, of modified hairs, 
intermediate between spines and bristles, 
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