
GERONOPS—GLIS. 295 
Geronops AmEGHINo, 1891. Edentata, Megalonychide. 
Nuevos Restos Mamif. Fós. Patagonia Austral, 39, Aug., 1891; Revista Argentina 
Hist. Nat., I, entr. 5a, 320, Oct. 1, 1891. 
Type: Geronops circularis Ameghino, from the Lower Eocene of southern Pata- 
gonia. 
Name said by its author to be preoccupied by Geranopsis Lydekker, 1891, a 
genus of extinct birds. Replaced by Eugeranops Ameghino, 1891. 
Extinct. 
Geronops: yép@v, an old man; óv, aspect. 
Gigantomys Link, 1794. Marsupialia, Macropodid:e. 
Beytr. Naturgesch., pt. 1, 70, 1794; Mag. Thiergesch., I, pt. rr, 38, 1794; 
Meyer, Zool. Annalen, I, 319, 1794. 
Type: Gigantomys canguru Link ( — Didelphis gigantea Schreber = Yerboa gigantea 
Zimmermann), from New South Wales. 
Name antedated by Macropus Shaw, 1790. 
Gigantomys: yiyas, yiyarrosc, giant; “0s, mouse. 
Giraffa Brisson, 1762. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Giraffide. 
Regnum Animale in Classes IX distrib., 2d ed., 12, 37-38, 1762; Briinnicn, 
Zoologiw Fundamenta, 36, 46-47, 1772 (no species mentioned; Scororr, Introd. 
Hist. Nat., 494, 1777; ZIMMERMANN, Geog. Geschichte Mensch. und vierfüssig. 
Thiere, II, 125-127, 1780; Merriam, Science, new ser., I, No. 14, p. 375, Apr. 5, 
1895. 
Type: Giraffa giraffa Brisson (= Cervus camelopardalis Linnzeus), from Africa. 
Giraffa: French giraffe, Arabic zaraf, zarafa, giraffe. (Century Dict.) The 
Arabic word means ‘one who walks swiftly.’ (Bepparp, Mamm., 303.) 
Arabie wirapha, ‘significant of its graceful appearance. (TEGETMEIER, Lon- 
don Field, vol. 92, p. 226, July 30, 1898.) 
Gladiator (subgenus of Orca) Gray, 1870. Cete, Delphinid:e. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, p. 71, figs. 1, 3. 
Type: Orca stenorhyncha Gray (= Orca gladiator Gray), from the North Sea. 
Gladiator: Lat., gladiator—probably in allusion to the narrow tapering beak, 
and the animals blood-thirsty propensities. 
Glauconycteris (subg. of Chalinolobus) Dopson, 1875. Chiroptera, Vespertilionidze. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1875, 383; Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus., 247, 252, 1878. 
Species, 3: Chalinolobus poensis (= Kerivoula poensis Gray), from Fernando Po, 
West Africa; C. argentatus Dobson, from the Cameroon Mountains, West 
Africa; and C. variegatus (= Scotophilus variegatus Tomes), from Otjoro, south- 
western Africa. 
Glauconycteris: y Aavkós, gray; vukrepís, bat—from the fur, which is light gray 
or cream-colored at the tips. 
Glirisorex (see Glisorex). Insectivora, Tupaiidee. 
Glis Brisson, 1762. Glires, Muscardinid:e. 
Regnum Animale in Classes IX distrib., 2d ed., 13, 113-118, 1762; ‘‘ Linnxus, 
Amoen Acad. VII, 450, 1766" (fide Sherborn, Index Anim., 1902); Mrrrram, 
Science, new ser., I, No. 14, p. 376, Apr. 5, 1895 (type fixed). 
Type: Glis glis Brisson ( — Sciurus glis Linnzeus, 1766), from southern Europe. 
Glis: Lat., dormouse. 
Glis EnxLEBEN, 1777. Glires, Sciuridze? 
Syst. Regni Anim., Mamm., 358-377, 1777. 
Species, 13: Glis marmota, G. monax, G. canadensis, G. cricetus, G. tscherkessicus, 
G. citellus, G. zemni, G. lemmus, G. migratorius, G. barabensis, G. arenarius, G. 
lagurus, and G. @conomicus. 
Name preoccupied by Glis Brisson, 1762, a genus of Muscardinidee. 
