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MALACOTHRIX —MAMMUT. 
Malacothrix— Continued. : 
New name for Otomys A. Smith, 1834, which is preoccupied by Otomys F. Cuvier, 
1823, a genus of Otomyin:e. 
Malacothrix: wadkakos, soft; 6018, hair—in allusion to the long soft fur. 
Mallomys Tuowas, 1898. Glires, Murid:e, Murine. 
Novitates Zool., V, No. 1, pp. 1-2, Mar., 1898. 
Type: Mallomys rothschildi Thomas, from the region between Mts. Musgrave and 
Scratchley, British New Guinea. 
Mallomys: “waddAos, wool; “0s, mouse—in allusion to the long thick fur. 
Mamatelesus Herrera, 1899. Primates, Cebid:e. 
Sinonimia Vulg. y Cient. Prin. Vert. Méx., 19, 1899. 
Modification of Afeles; the prefix Mam- indicating a mammal and the suffix us 
being added for the sake of uniformity in names of animals. (« indicates 
plants and wm minerals—see p. 25).* 
Mammut BrvMENBACH, 1799. Ungulata, Proboscidea, E ephantide. 
Handbuch Naturgesch., 6te Auflage, 697-698, 1799;+ 7te Auflage, 723, 1803; 
Voigt’s Mag. neuest. Zustand Naturk., II, pt. 1, 24, 1800; Hay, Cat. Foss. 
Vert. N. Am., Bull. 179, U. S. Geol. Surv., 707-712, 1902. 
Mammout, **Man. Hist. Nat. trad. p. Artaud, 1803, II, 408, pl., fig. a’’ (fide 
Leipy, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., VII, 393, 1869—under Mastodon 
americanus ). 
Mammuthus BunNETT, Quart. Journ. Sci., Lit. & Art, XXVIII, for Oct.-Dec., 
1829, 352, 1830. 
Mammonthewm BrArNvILLE, Ostéog., III, ‘Des Éléphants,' 237, 1845. 
Mammuth LypEKKeEr, Cat. Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus., IV, 15, 1886 (in synonymy). 
Type: Mammut ohioticum Blumenbach (= Elephas americanus Kerr, 1792), based 
on remains from the Pleistocene of the Ohio River. 
Extinct. 
Mammut: Tartar name Mammantu, ground dweller. The Siberian peasants 
(Yakuts and Tungusians), never having seen the mammoth alive, but finding 
its bones near the surface of the ground, believed the animal to be a gigantic 
mole, which lived under ground and perished when by accident it saw the 
light. (Lucas, Animals of the Past, 178, 1901.) 
Witzen, Strahlenburg, and Howorth have endeavored to prove that mammoth 
is a corruption of the Arabic word Behemoth, or great beast (FLowmr & LypEK- 
KER, Mamm., Living & Extinct 428, 1891). 


*Other genera are similarly modified, as follows (see p. 26): Mambassarisus (p. 26), 
Mamblarinaus(p. 20), Mamcanisus ( p. 11), Mamcapraus(p. 8), Mamcariacus (p. 26), Mam- 
castorus (p. 7), Mamcaviaus (p. 13), Mamcercolepteus (p. 19), Mamcoelogenysus (p. 26), 
Mamconepatus (p. 4), Mamceyclothurus (p. 19), Mameynomisus (p. 22), Mamdasyproctaus 
(p. 29), Mamdelphinus (p. 27), Mamdicotylesus (p. 17), Mamdidelphisus (p. 24), Mam- 
dipodomysus (p. 24), Mamfelisus (p. 17), Mamgalictisus (p. 22), Mamgeomysus (p. 28), 
Mamlepus (p. 11), Mamlutraus (p. 20), Mammephitisus (p. 30), Mammonachus (p. 13), 
Mammus (p. 24), Mammustelaus (p. 20), Mammyrmecophagaus (p. 16), Mamnasuaus 
(p. 26), Mamnyctinomus (p. 20), Mamprocyonus (p. 18), Mamsciurus (p. 5), Mam- 
spermophilus (p. 5), Mamsynetheresus (p. 16), Mamtatusiusus (p. 5), Mamtaxideaus 
(p. 27), Mamursus (p. 20), Mamvulpesus (p. 30). 
t ^ The name is first employed by Blumenbach in the sixth edition. . . . In the 
fifth edition, published in 1797, page 703, under the head of ‘Incognita,’ he calls the 
Mastodon ‘das famose Land-Ungeheuer der Vorwelt, der vulgo so genannte fleisch- 
fressende Elephant"  (Lxzrpv, l. c., 392.) 
