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GLOSSONYCTERIS 

GLYPTATELUS. 297 
Glossonycteris Prrers, 1868. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatid:e. 
Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 1868, 364—565. 
Type: Glossonycteris lasiopyga Peters, from Mexico. 
Glossonycteris: yA@OGa, tongue; vvkrtpís, bat—from the long, slender, exten- 
sible tongue. 
Glossophaga Grorrroy, 1818. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatid:e. 
Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, IV, 413-418, pls. 17, 18, 1818; Dosson, Cat. 
Chiroptera Brit. Mus. 499-501, 1878; FrowEkR & LvpEekkER, Mamm. Living 
and Extinct, 674-675, 1891. 
Type: Vespertilio soricinus Pallas, from tropical America. 
Glossophaga: y AG66a, tongue; ay eiv, to eat. It was formerly supposed that 
the long, slender, extensile tongue was used to facilitate the flow of blood in 
the animal’s alleged blood-sucking operations. These bats, however, are 
irugivorous, and the tongue is used to lick out the soft pulp of fruits. (CEN- 
TURY Drcr.) *'The food appears . . . to consist of both fruit and insects, and 
the long tongue may also be used for extracting the latter from the deep 
coroll: of certain flowers?"  (FrowkR & LYDEKKER. ) 
Glossotherium Owen, 1840. Edentata, Megatheriidee. 
Zool. Voy. ‘ Beagle,’ pt. 1, Foss. Mamm., 57-63, pl. xvr, 1840. 
Type: Glossotherium darwini Owen, from the Rio Sarandis (a branch of the Rio 
Negro, in Banda Oriental), Uruguay. 
Extinct. ‘‘Represented . . . by a fragment of the cranium." 
Glossotherium: yA @o6a, tongue; §ypiov, wild beast. 
Glyphidelphis Gervais, 1859. Cete, Delphinide. 
Zool. et Paléont. Frang., 2° éd., 301, 1859; Mém. Acad: Sci. Montpellier, V, 3° 
pt., 452, 1863. 
Type: Delphinus rostratus F. Cuvier, from the Indiam Ocean. (See Gray, Cat. 
Seals & Whales Brit. Mus., 233, 18606.) 
Glyphidelphis: y Avec, the notched end of an arrow; ó£Aqís, dolphin—in allu- 
sion to the teeth. 
Glyphodon Rorn, 1899. Ungulata, Litopterna, Proterotheriid:e. 
Revista Mus. La Plata, IX, 383-384, 1899; AwxaniNo, Sin. Geol.-Palcont., Se- 
gundo Censo Nac. Repüb. Argentina, I, Supl., p. 12, July, 1899. 
Type: Glyphodon langi Roth, from the ‘ upper Cretaceous’ of Canadon Colorado, 
Territory of Chubut, Patagonia. 
Name preoccupied by Glyphodon Ginther, 1858, a genus of Reptilia. Replaced 
by Xesmodon Berg, 1899. 
Extinct. Based on a skull containing the last two molars. 
Glyphodon: y Av), carving, notch; d6@v=6d6ovs, tooth. 
Glyphonycteris Tuowas, 1896. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatid:e. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 6th ser., XVIII, 301-303, Oct. 1, 1896. 
Type: Glyphonycteris sylvestris Thomas, from Imravalles, Costa Rica. 
Glyphonycteris: yAtbdea, to chisel; vuKrepis, bat—from the large, chisel-shaped 
upper middle incisors. 
Glyphotes Tomas, 1898. Glires, Sciuridee. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th ser., II, 250-251, Sept. 1, 1898. 
Type: Glyphotes simus Thomas, from Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo. 
Glyphotes: y Aoc, to chisel—from the broad, chisel-shaped lower incisors. 
Glyptatelus AwxaniNo, 1897. Edentata, Glyptodontid:e (Propaleeohoplophoride ). 
La Argentina al través de las Ultimas Epocas Geológicas, 19 footnote, 1897 
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(nomen nudum); Bol. Inst. Geog. Argentino, X VIII, 507, fig. 84, Oct. 6, 1897. 
