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Choerodes Lrrpy, 1852. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Hippopotamid:e. 
Proc Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1852, 52. 
Type: Hippopotamus liberiensis Morton, from St. Paul River, Liberia, West Africa. 
Name preoccupied by Cherodes White, 1846, a genus of Coleoptera. Replaced by 
Cheropsis Leidy, 1853. 
Cherodes: yowp@syns, like a hog—from its habits. 
Choeromeryx Pome., 1848. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Anthracotheriid:ze? 
Comptes Rendus, Paris, X XVI, No. 25, p. 687, Jan.-June, 1848; LypEKKER, Cat. 
Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus., II, 165-166, 1885. 
Chaeromeryx LYDEKKER, Cat. Siwalik Vert. Indian Mus., 37, 1885. 
Type: Anthracotherium silistrense Pentland, from the Siwaliks of Káribári, Gáro 
Hills, northeast Bengal, India. 
Extinct. Based on the right maxilla, containing the third and fourth molars. 
Cheromeryx: yoipos, hog; “eve, ruminant. 
Choeromorus GrrvAIs, 1848-52. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suid:e. 
Zool. et Paléont. Frang., 1° éd., IT, Expl. pl. No. 33, p. 7, 1848-52; 2° éd., 1859, 
185-187, pl. 33, figs. 4-5, 1859. 
Species: Choeromorus mamillatus Gervais, and C. simplex Gervais, from the Départe- 
ment du Gers, France. 
Extinct. Based on two fragments of lower jaws, each containing the last three 
molars. 
Choeromorus: yoipos, hog; Ouopos, closely resembling, a neighbor. 
Choeronycteris (subgenus of Glossophaga) LicHTENSTEIN, 1844. 
Chiroptera, Phyllostomatid:ze. 
LicHTENSTEIN in Tschudi’s Fauna Peruana, Mamm., 70-73, Taf. rir, 1844; Wieg- 
mann’s Archiv Naturgesch., 1844, I, 247; PETERS, Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. 
Wiss., Berlin, 1865, 354; Ibid., 1868, 366 (raised to generic rank); Doxson, 
Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus., 509-511, 1878; MirLER & Ren, Proc. Boston Soc. 
Nat. Hist., X X X, 284—285, Dec., 1901 (type fixed). 
Species: Choeronycteris peruana Tschudi, from the east slope of the Cordillera (alt. 
5,000 ft.), Peru; and C. mexicana Tschudi (type), from Mexico. 
Cheronycteris: yoipos, hog; vuKrepis, bat—in allusion to the long, slender 
rostrum. 
Choeropithecus (see Cheropithecus). Primates, Cercopithecidee. 
Chceropotamus (see Cheropotamus). Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suide. 
Choeropotamus Brepparp, 1895. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Hippopotamid:e. 
Text-Book Zoogeography, 100, 1895. 
Lapsus for Cheropsis Leidy, 1853: ‘‘The small Liberian hippopotamus has 
been placed in a distinct genus, Cheropotamus" (not Cheropotamus Cuvier, 
1821). 
Choeropsis Lrrpy, 1853. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Hippopotamidee. 
Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., II, pt. 11r, 213-224, pl. 21, Jan., 1853. 
New name for Chwrodes Leidy, 1852, which is preoccupied by Cherodes White, 
1846, a genus of Coleoptera. 
Cheropsis: xotpos, hog; ovs, appearance. 
Cheeropus (see Cheropus). Marsupialia, Peramelidee. 
Choerotherium CavrLEv & FaArcoNkR, 1835. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suidze? 
Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, IV, No. 48, p. 706, Dec., 1835. 
Cherotherium CavruEY & FaArcoxEn, Asiatic Researches, Calcutta, XIX, pt. 1, 
59 footnote, pls. rv fig. 6, v figs. 2 a, b, d, 1836; Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, 2e ser., 
Zool., VII, 61, Jan., 1837. 
