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Dasyuroides Spencer, 1896. Marsupialia, Dasyuridee. 
Proc. Roy. Soe. Victoria, new ser., VIII, 5-8, Apr., 1896. 
Type: Dasyuroides byrnei Spencer, from Charlotte Waters, Central Australia. 
Dasyuroides: Dasyurus; £180s, form. 
Dasyurotherium Liais, 1872. Marsupialia, Didelphyid:e. 
Climats, Géol., Faune, et Géog. Botanique Brésil, 531, 1872. 
New name suggested for Thylacotherium Lund, 1839, but suppressed in favor of 
Gambatherium. ‘Le nom de Gambatherium indiquerait mieux les analogies 
que celui de Dasyurotherium.”  (Lrats. ) 
Dasyurotherium: Sa6vs, thick; ovp«, tail; 670£ov, wild beast. 
Dasyurus É. Grorrroy, 1796. Marsupialia, Dasyuridee. 
Mag. Encyclopédique, 2° année, III, 469-470, 1796; Bull. Soc. Philomathique, 
Paris, I, 1° part., 106, 1796; Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, IV, 353, 1804; LAcÉPEDE, 
“Tabl. Méth. Mamm. 5, 1799"; THomas, Cat. Marsup. & Monotrem. Brit. 
Mus., 261, 265, 1888. 
, London Encyclop:edia, X XII, 745, 1845 (art. Zoology ). 
Jased on the ‘Spotted Opossum’ of Phillips, the ‘Tapoa tafa’ of White ( Didelphis 
viverrinus Shaw), from southeastern Australia. 
Dasyurus: da6vs, hairy, rough; ovp, tail. 
Dasurus 

Daubentonia É. Grorrroy, 1795. Primates, Daubentoniid:e. 
* Décad. Philos. et Litt. (No. 28, 10 pluv. an. 3) 195, 1795" (fide SHERBORN, 
Index Anim. 282, 1113, 1902); Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1863, 151; Cat. 
Monkeys, Lemurs & Fruit-eating Bats Brit. Mus., 96-97, 1870. 
Type: Sciurus madagascariensis Gmelin, from Madagascar. This name antedates 
Cheiromys Lacépeéde, 1799. 
Daubentonia: In honor of Louis Jean Marie Daubenton, 1716-1799, a collaborator 
of Buffon, and for many years curator of the cabinet of Natural History of 
Paris. Best known through his contributions (especially on anatomy) to 
Buffon's works. 
Daunus Gray, 1821. Primates, Cercopithecid:e. 
London Med. Repos., XV, No. 88, p. 298, Apr. 1, 1821. 
Type: Simia nemus Linnzeus, from Cochin China. 
Dawnus: Aavyos, Daunus, a fabulous king of part of the province of Apulia, 
southern Italy (application obscure). 
Decaconus AMEGHINO, 1901. Ungulata, Condylarthra, Phenacodontid:e. 
Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Córdoba, XVI, 378, July, 1901 (sep. p. 32). 
Type: Decaconus intricatus Ameghino, from the ‘ Cretaceous’ of Patagonia. 
Extinct. i 
Decaconus: ó£ka, ten; «vos, cone—in allusion to the number of cones on the 
upper molars. 
Decastis AMEGHINO, 1891. Marsupialia, Epanorthid:e. 
Nuevos Restos Mamff. Fós. Patagonia Austral, 19, Aug., 1891; Revista Argentina 
Hist. Nat., I, entr. 5a, 305, Oct. 1, 1891. 
Species: Decastis columnaris Ameghino, and D. rurigerus Ameghino, from the 
Lower Eocene of southern Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Decastis: Anagram of Acdestis. 
Decticadapis Lemorne, 1883. Glires, Pseudosciuridee? 
[Recherches Oiseaux Foss. Reims, II, 78, 1881—D. sciuroides, nomen nudum. | 
3ull. Soe. Géol. de France, 3° sér., XI, for 1882-83, No. 4, p. 269, pl. v1, figs. 37-39, 
May, 1883; XIX, No. 6, p. 289, pl. x1, tig. 146, Aug., 1891. 
Type. Decticadapis sciuroides Lemoine (1891), from the Lower Eocene near Reims, 
France. 
Extinct. Based on teeth. 
