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Colotaxis—Continued. 
Type: Colotaxis cristatus Cope, from the Oligocene of Colorado. 
Extinct. 
Colotaxis: KOA os, docked; r&&:c, arrangement, row. 
Colpodon Burmeister, 1885. Ungulata, Ancylopoda, Homalodontotheriidz. 
Anal. Mus. Nac., Buenos Aires, III, entr. xiv, 161-168, pl. iu fig. 16, figs. 
A, B, C in text, 1885. 
Type: Colpodon propinquus Burmeister, from the Rio Chubut, Patagonia. 
Extinct. Based on two molar teeth. 
Colpodon: kóAzos, fold; 00d v —ó90Us, tooth—in allusion to the enamel folds of 
the molars. 
Colpostemma AMEGHINO, 1891. Glires, Chinchillidze. 
Revista Argentina Hist. Nat., I, entr. 3a, 141, fig. 40, June 1, 1891. 
Calpostemma ZyrrEt, Handb. Paleeont., IV, 549, 1893. 
Type: Colpostemma sinuata Ameghino, from the Lower Oligocene of the city of 
Paraná, Argentina. 
Extinct. 
Colpostemma: KOAmos, hollow; 6réusa, wreath, crown—in allusion to the 
enamel folds of the crowns of the upper molars. 
Colugo (subgenus of Galeopithecus) Gray, 1870. Insectivora, Galeopithecid:e. 
Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs & Fruit-Eating Bats Brit. Mus., 98, 1870. 
Type: Galeopithecus philippinensis Waterhouse, from the Philippine Islands. 
Colugo: Native name in the Philippine Islands. 
Colus (subgenus of Antilope) WAGNER, 1844. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidee. 
Suppl. Schreber’s Sáugthiere, IV, 419-420, tab. ccrLxxvr, 1844; FrTZINGER, 
Sitzungsber. Math.-Nat. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss., Wien, LIX, Abth. r, 161, Feb., 
1869 (raised to generic rank); SctLArTER & THomas, Book of Antelopes, III, 
pt. 1x, 29, Aug., 1897 (in synonymy). 
Type: Antilope saiga Pallas (— Capra tatarica Linneeus), from the steppes of 
Siberia. 
Name preoccupied by Colus Humphrey, 1797, a genus of Mollusca. Antedated 
by Saiga Gray, 1848. 
Colus: Koos, a kind of goat without horns. According to Sclater & Thomas (1. c. 
p. 33), the word is ‘‘said to have been formed by transposition from native 
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name ‘Suloc. 
Comaphorus AmeEGHINO, 1886. Edentata, Glyptodontid:ze. 
Bol. Acad. Nae. Cien. Córdoba, IX, 197-199, 1886. 
Type: Comaphorus conciscus Ameghino, from the older Tertiary of Paraná, 
Argentina. 
Extinct. Based on a plate of the carapace. 
Comaphorus: Kon, hair; @opos, bearing. 
Comastes Firzincrer, 1870.. Chiroptera, Vespertilionid:e. 
Sitzungsber. Math.-Nat. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss., Wien, LXII, Abth. 1, 565-579, 
Nov.-Dec., 1870 (sep. pp. 39-53). 
Species, 4: Vespertilio capaccinii Bonaparte, from Italy; V. megapodius Temminck, 
from Sardinia; V. dasycneme Boie, and V. limnophilus Temminck, from the 
Netherlands. 
Comastes: kcucór?))s, a reveler—probably in allusion to the animals’ nocturnal 
habits. 
Comphotherium (see Camphotherium). Insectivora, Talpidee. 
Conacodon MarruEw, 1897. Ungulata, Amblypoda, Periptychid:e. 
Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York, XI, 264, 298, Nov. 16, 1897; Hay, Cat. 
Foss. Vert. N. Am., Bull. 179, U. S. Geol. Surv., 695, 1902 (type fixed). 
Species: Haploconus entoconus Cope (type), and Anisonchus cophater Cope, from 
the Puereo Eocene of New Mexico. 
