358 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Kiodotus Brvru, 1840. Chiroptera, Pteropodid:e. 
Buy, in Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, 69 footnote, 1840; new ed., 1849, 69 foot- 
note; new ed., 1863, 57 footnote; PArMER, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XII, 111, 
Apr. 30, 1898 (name revived). 
Koidotus C. O. WATERHOUSE, Index Zool., 188, 1902 (misprint). 
New name for Mucroglossus Schinz, 1824, which is preoccupied by Macroglossum 
Scopoli, 1777, a genus of Lepidoptera. Kiodotus antedates Carponycteris 
Lydekker, 1891, which was likewise proposed to replace Macroglossus. 
Kiodotus: **'The common name for the species, latinized."  (Brvrn.) 
Kirivoula (see Kerivoula). Chiroptera, Vespertilionid:e. 
Koala Burnett, 1830. Marsupialia, Phalangerid:e. 
[‘Les Koala’ G. Cuvier, Régne Animal, I, 184, 1817]; Burnerr, Quart. Journ. 
Sci., Lit. & Art, XXVIII, for Oct.-Dec., 1829, 351, 1830; McMurrrig, Cuvier’s 
Animal Kingdom, I, 133, 1831; abridged ed., 78, 1 fig. in text, 1834. 
Type: Koala subiens Burnett ( — Lipurus cinereus Goldfuss) , from eastern Australia. 
See Phascolarctos Blainville, 1816. 
Koala: Native name. 
Koalemus Dr Vis, 1889. Marsupialia, Phalangerid:e. 
Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, VI, 106, pl. v, 1889. 
Type: Koalemus ingens De Vis, from the Pleistocene of Darling Downs, Queens- 
land, Australia. 
Extinct. 
Koalemus: Koala: Lat. mus, mouse. 
Kobus A. Smirn, 1840. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidee. 
Smiru, Ill. Zool. South Africa, No. 12, pls. xxvii, xxix, Oct., 1840; Gray, 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 232, Oct., 1846. 
Kolus Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pp. xxvi, 159, 1843; Cat. Mamm. 
Brit. Mus., pt. irt, Ungulata, 99, 1852 (synonym of Kobus). 
Cobus BuckuEv, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1876, 284; SctATER & THomas, Book 
of Antelopes, II, 95-153, pls. xxxir-xrri, figs. 31-36, 1896-97. 
Robus Zrrrg,, Handb. Paleeont., IV, Mamm., 2 Lief., 417, 792, 1893 (misprint). 
Type: Antilope ellipsiprymnus Ogilby, from South Africa. 
Kobus: Kob, native name of an antelope used by the Mandingos on the Gambia 
River, and first adopted as a specific name by Buffon. (ScraATER & Tuowas, 
Book of Antelopes, II, 138, 1897.) 
Kogia Gray, 1846. Cete, Physeteridz. 
Zool. Voy. H. M. 8S. ‘Erebus & Terror,’ I, Mamm., 22, 1846. 
Cogia WALLACE, Geog. Dist. Animals, II, 208, 1876; BLanrorp, Fauna Brit. India, 
Mamm., 572, 1891; LypeKKer, in Flower & Lydekker’s Mamm., Living & 
Extinct, 250, 1891. 
Type: Physeter breviceps Blainville, from the Cape of Good Hope. 
Kogia: ‘‘A barbarous and unmeaning name." (War, Hist. New Sperm Whale, 
1851.) *'A barbarous word, said to be a Latinized form of ‘codger’! But it 
might be a tribute to a Turk of the past surnamed Cogia Effendi, who observed 
whales in the Mediterranean." (BrppaRpD, Book of Whales, 186, 1900. ) 
Koidotus (see Kiodotus). Chiroptera, Pteropodide. 
Koiropotamus Gray, 1848. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suide. 
List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. xxvii, 1843. 
Nomen nudum. The name is also spelled Choiropotamus (ibid., p. 185), and is 
based on Sus africanus Gmelin, from Africa. (See Choiropotamus.) 
Koiropotamus: yorpos, hog; zoraj«ós, river. 
