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Lipurus Gorpruss, 1817. Marsupialia, Phalangerid:e. 
Schreber’s Siugthiere, pls. ctv Aa, Ab, 1817; Oken's Isis, 1819, 271, 273-274. 
Liseurus McMvnrnrE, abridged ed. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, 78, 1834 (misprint). 
Type: Lipurus cinereus Goldtuss, from eastern Australia. 
Name preoccupied by Lipura Illiger, 1811, a genus of Glires. (See Phascolarctos 
Blainville, 1816.) 
Lipurus: Nei, to leave, to be wanting; ova, tail—in allusion to the absence 
of a tail. 
Lissodelphis Grocrn, 1841. Cete, Delphinid:e. 
Hand- u. Hilfsbuch Naturgesch., I, pp. xxxiv, 169, 1841; THomas, Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist., 6th ser., XV, 191, Feb. 1, 1895; PArwrR, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 
XIII, p. 24, Jan. 31, 1899 (name revived). 
Type: Delphinus peronii Lacépéde, from the Antarctic Ocean, south of Tasmania. 
(Locality fide Lacépéde, Cétacées, 316, 1804. ) 
Lissodelphis: A1666s, smooth; deA dis, dolphin. 
Listriodon Mxrvrn, 1846. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suidee. 
Neues Jahrbuch Mineralogie, 1846, 466. 
Type: Listriodon splendens Meyer, from the middle Miocene of Chaux-de-fonds, 
Département du Doubs, France. 
?xtinct. 
Listriodon: Aiórpior (dim. of Aidrpor), spade; 65@v=ddovs, tooth. 
Listriotherium Mercerat, 1891. Ungulata, Astrapotheroidea, Astrapotheriide. 
Revista Mus. La Plata, I, 252-253, 1890-91. 
Species: Listriotherium patagonicum Mercerat, from Monte Leon; and L. filholi 
Mercerat, from the Rio Santa Cruz—both from the Eocene of Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Listriotherium: Aiórpiov (dim. of AGrpov), spade; 65píov, wild beast. 
Lithocranius (see Litocranius). Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidee. 
Lithomys Meyer, 1846. Glires, Murid:e, Cricetinee? 
Neues Jahrbuch Mineralogie, 1846, 475; Bronn, Handb. Gesch. Natur, III, Index 
Paleeont., 661, 1848; IV, 717, 1849. 
Type: Lithomys parvulus Meyer (nomen nudum), from the Miocene of Weisenau, 
Germany. 
Extinct. 
Lithomys: Aífos, stone; 0s, mouse. 
Lithops AmrEGcHINo, 1887. Ungulata, Toxodontia, Toxodontide. 
Enum. Sist. Especies Mamíf. Fós. Patagonia Austral, p. 15, Dec., 1887. 
Type: Lithops previus Ameghino, from the lower Tertiary of southern Pata- 
gonia. 
Name said to be preoccupied by Lithopsis Scudder, 1878, a genus of Hemiptera. 
Replaced by Palxolithops Ameghino, 1891. 
?xtinct. 
Lithops: Aífos, stone; Ow, aspect. 
Lithotragus Hrups, 1898. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovide. 
Mém. Hist. Nat. Empire Chinois, IV, pt. 1, p. 13, 1898. 
Species 5, from China and Tonkin: Capricornis maritimus Heude, C. rocherianus 
Heude, C. benetianus Heude, from the Gulf of Tonkin; €: marcolinus Heude, 
and C. berthetianus Heude, from Tonkin. 
Lithotragus: Ai§os, stone; rp&yos, goat—‘‘de sa station la plus ordinaire.”’ 
(Heubr. ) 
Litocranius Kour, 1886. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidee. 
Ann. K. K. Naturhist. Hofmus., Wien, I, Nr. 2, pp. 79-82, 1886. 
Lithocranius Tuomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, Aug. 1, 1891, 207. 
Type: Gazeila walleri Brooke, from East Africa, north of the island of Zanzibar 
(S. lat. 3°, E. lon. 38°). 
