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Crenidelphinus— Continued. 
Crenidelphinus: Lat. crena, tooth;-- Delphinus—in allusion to the number of lobes 
of the posterior teeth, ‘‘le nombre des lobes est plus considérable . . . ce 
serait done un Dauphin, qui par sa dentition, se lierait aux Phoques." 
Creoadapis LEworNE, 1894. Primates, Plesiadapide. 
Bull. Soe. Géol. France, 3* sér., XXI, 1893, No. 5, pp. 353, 361-362, pl. rx, fig. 1 
Apr., 1894. 
Type: Creoadapis douvillei Lemoine from the Eocene (‘la Faune Cernaysienne’ ), 
near Reims, France. 
Extinct. Based on a considerable portion of the lower jaw. 
Creoadapis: Kpéas, flesh (i. e., carnivorous?) ; + Adapis. 
Cricetodipus Prats, 1848. Glires, Heteromyide. 
Mamm. & Ornith. Wilkes Expl. Expd., VIII, 52-53, 4848; 2d ed., 48, 1858. 
Type: Cricetodipus parvus Peale, from Oregon. 
Cricetodipus: Cricetus 4- Dipus. 
Cricetodon Larrer, 1851. Glires, Muridze, Cricetine. 
Notice sur la Colline de Sansan, 20-21, 1851. 
Species, 3: Cricetodon sansaniensis Lartet, C. medium Lartet, and C. minus Lartet, 
from Sansan, Dépt. du Gers, France. 
Extinct. 
Cricetodon: Cricetus; 650v=66o0vs, tooth—from the resemblance of the molars 
to those of Cricetus. 
Cricetomys (subgenus of Mus) WArERHOUSE, 1840. Glires, Muridz, Murine. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, No. Ixxxv, July, 1840, 1-3; Lesson, Nouv. Tableau 
Régne Animal, Mamm., 120, 1842 (raised to generic rank). 
Type: Cricetomys gambianus from the Gambia River, West Africa. 
Cricetomys: Cricetus; “0s, mouse—from the cheek pouches, a character in which 
the genus resembles Cricetus, while otherwise externally it resembles Mus. 
Cricetulus Mitne-Epwarps, 1867. Glires, Muridee, Cricetinz. 
Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, 5° sér., Zool., VII, 375-376, 1867; Recherches Hist. Nat. 
Mamm., 133-137, pl. 12 figs. 1-3, pl. 13 figs. 1-3, 1868-74. 
Type: Cricetulus griseus Milne-Edwards, from China. 
Cricetulus: Dim. of Cricetus. 
Cricetus Lrskg, 1779. Glires, Muridze, Cricetine. 
[ ZIMMERMANN, Specimen Zool. Geog. Quad., 343-344, 1777—not a valid genus]; 
Lzskr, Anfangsgründe Naturgesch., I, 168-170, 1779; Kerr, Anim. King., I, 
Mamm. , Syst. Cat., Nos. 509-515, pp. 42, 242-246,1792; Linx, Beytr. Naturgesch., 
I, pt. 1r, 52, 75, 1795; Cuvier, Lec. d'Anat. Comp., I, table 1, 1800; Régne 
Animal, I, 198, 1817; ibid., ed. 2, 204-205, 1829; TrEDEMANN, Zoologie, I, 467, 
1808; ALLEN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., VII, 181, 183, June 19, 1895. 
Species 2, from Europe: Cricetus vulgaris Leske ( — Mus cricetus Linnzeus), C. citellus 
( — Mus citellus Pallas), and C. marmota ( — Mus marmota). 
Kerr's Cricetus includes 6 species from Eurasia: C. acredula (— Mus migratorius 
Pallas, 1771 = M. accedula Pallas, 1778), C. germanicus (= M. cricetus Linnzeus), 
C. arenarius (— M. arenarius Pallas), C. pheus (—.M. pheus Pallas), C. son- 
garicus (= M. songaricus Pallas), and C. furunculus (= M. furunculus Pallas)— 
fide Allen, l. c. 
Cricetus: Lat., from Ital. criceto, hamster. According to Nehring (Zool. Anzeiger, 
XXI, 494, 1898) the word is derived from the German common name Krietsch. 
Crinotherium (see Cainotherium ). Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Anoplotheriid:ze. 
Criotaurus GrocEn, 1841. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovide. 
Hand- u. Hilfsbuch Naturgesch., I, 148-149, 1841; THomas, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist., 6th ser., XV, 191, Feb. 1, 1895. 
