210 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM 
Cynocebus (subgenus of Chlorocebus) Gray, 1870. Primates, Cercopithecide. 
Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs & Fruit-eating Bats Brit. Mus., 26, 1870. 
Type: Cercopithecus cynosurus Geoffroy, from West Africa. 
Cynocebus: KU@Y, kvrós, dog; Kos, long-tailed monkey. 
Cynocephalus Boppaérr, 1768. Insectivora, Galeopithecide. 
Dierkundig Mengelwerk. In het Latyn beschreeven door Pallas, II, 8, footnote 
23) Bede f irc 
Type: Cynocephalus volans ( — Lemur volans Linnzeus), from the island of Ternate, 
Malay Archipelago. ‘‘ Waarom de Heer Houttuin dit geslacht Spookdieren 
noemt; beken ik niet te weeten, alzoo min als de oorsprong van de Latynsche 
naam Lemur. . . . De zoort welke de Heer Pallas hier bedoelt [het vliegende 
Spookdier] is die welke de Heer Seba en na hem de Heer Houttuin de 
vliegende Kat van Ternate noemt . . .; derhalven waare dezelve beter 
genoemd, de vliegende Meerkat ( Cynocephalus volans)" (Boppairt, 1. c.) 
Cynocephalus: kócv, kvvós, dog; x«£o«An», head. 
Cynocephalus Cuvier & GEorrRov, 1795. Primates, Cercopithecide. 
[Brisson, Regnum Animale in Classes IX distrib., 2d ed., 133, 246, 247, 1762— 
‘Stirps II, Simia eynocephala,’ ‘Stirps V, Cercopithecus cynocephalus’ ]; 
“Cuvier & GrEorFROY, Mag. Encyc., III (12), 462, 1795;" G. Cuvier, [Tab. 
Elém. Hist. Nat. Animaux, 98-99, 1798—‘les Macaques,’ with 4 species;] 
Lecons Anat. Comp., I, tabl. 1, 1800 (Macaques—Cynocephalus); LACÉPEDE, 
“Tabl. Méth. Mamm., 4, 1799;" Nouv. Tabl. Méthod., in Mém. l'Institut, ITT, 
490, 1801 (C. maimon); DEswAREsT, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat, XXIV, Tabl. 
Méthod., 8, 1804. 
Species, 4: Simia cynocephalus Linnzeus (type), from Africa; S. hamadryas Lin- 
nzeus, from northeast Africa; S. imuus Linnzus, from North Africa; and 5$. 
sphinx Linn:seus, from Africa (fide SHERBORN, Index Anim., 1112, 1902). 
Name preoccupied by Cynocephalus Boddaért, 1768, a genus of Insectivora; and 
by Cynocephalus Walbaum, 1792, a genus of Pisces. 
Cynocephalus:* k«vvokéqaos, dog-headed (from «oov, dog; x«eo«A?), head)— 
the ‘dog-faced baboon.’ . 
Cynochoerus Kaup, 1859. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suidee. 
*' Beitr. niheren Kenntniss urwelt. Sáugethiere, pl. 3, 1859" (fide TRovEssART, 
Cat. Mamm., new ed., fasc. rv, 813, 1898). 
Type: Cynochoerus ziegleri Kaup, from the Miocene of Germany. 
Extinct. 
Cynochoerus: «ocv, kvvóc, dog; yozpos, hog. 
Cynodesmus Scort, 1893. Ferz, Canide. 
Am. Naturalist, XXVII, No. 319, pp. 659, 660, July, 1893; Trans. Am. Philos. 
Soc., XVII, 63-75, pl. 1, figs. 1-5, May 23, 1894. 
Type: Cynodesmus thooides Scott, from the Oligocene of Deep River Valley, north- 
west of White Sulphur Springs, Meagher County, Montana. 
Extinct. 
Cynodesmus: cv, kvvósc,dog; 6640s, bond—aconnectant form between ancient 
and modern dogs. ‘‘Dentition like the microdont forms of Canis, but with 
the skull structure of the more ancient genera." (Scorr, Am. Nat., l. c.) 
Cynodictis, Bravarp & Pomet, 1850. Fer:, Canide. 
Notice Ossem. Foss. Débruge, prés Apt, 5, 1850; GERvairs, Zool. et Pal. Franc., 
1* éd., II, 113-114, 1848-52; 2*éd, 216-218, pls. 25, figs. 1-4; 26, fig. 4, 1859; Pome, 
Cat. Méth. Vert. Foss. Bassin de la Loire, 66, 1854; Hay, Cat. Foss. Vert. N. 
Am., Bull. 179, U. S. Geol. Surv., 771, 1902 (type given as C. parisiensis). 

* Cynocéphale, téte de chien, nom trés connu chez les anciens surtout parce que cet 
animal jouait un grand róle dans les figures symboliques des Egyptiens, ot il repré- 
sentait Tot ou Mercure." (Cuvier, Régne Anim., éd. 2, 97, 1829.) 
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