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Martes—Continued. 
Type: ‘Der Marder’ of Europe. 
Pinel’s genus was based on ‘la Fouine’ ( Martes domestica), from Eurasia. ‘‘ Pour 
donner quelque exemple de la maniére dont on peut faire servir l’arcade zigo- 
matique à la distinction des genres et des espéces, je vais parler des variétés 
frappantes qu'offrent à cet égard la Fouine ( Martes domestica L.) . . . [p. 55 
footnote]. On voit la méme disproportion de ces deux éminences osseuses 
[l'apophise coronoide et du condile] dans les os maxillaires du Chat, de la 
Fouine ( Martes domestica L.)" [p. 58]. 
Martes: Lat., marten. 
Martes ('InuiGER') WaG ier, 1830. Fere, Viverride. 
Nat. Syst. Amphibien, 29, 1830. 
Species, 5: Viverra mungos Linneeus, V. ichnewmon Schreber, Herpestes leschenaultii 
Cuvier, H. javanicus Cuvier, and H. penicillatus Cuvier, from Africa and Asia. 
Name credited to Illiger, but not given in his Prodromus Syst. Mamm. et Avium, 
1811. Preoccupied by Martes Frisch, 1775, a genus of Mustelidee. 
Marunsiomys (see Marcuinomys). Glires, Ochotonidee. 
Massoutiera LarasrE, 1885. Glires, Octodontide. 
Le Naturaliste, 7° ann., No. 3, pp. 21-22, Feb. 1, 1885. 
Type: Ctenodactylus mzabi Lataste, from Ghardaia, the principal town of Mzab, 
in the Algerian Sahara. 
Massoutiera: In honor of Lieut. —— Massoutier, ‘chef du bureau arabe de 
Ghardaia,’ who collected the type specimen of Ctenodactylus mzabi. 
Mastacomys Tuomas, 1882. Glires, Muridz, Murine. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 5th ser., IX, 413-414, 4 figs. in text, June 1, 1882. 
Type: Mastacomys fuscus Thomas, from Tasmania. 
Mastacomys: .a6raé, the chewing organ, jaw (from “aéadouat, to chew) ; “Us, 
mouse—in allusion to the molars. 
Mastodon G. Cuvier, 1817. Ungulata, Proboscidea, Elephantidee. 
[‘Mastodonte’ Cuvier, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., VIII, 270, 288, pls. 49-56, 1806. ] 
Régne Animal, I, 2832-233, 1817. 
Mastodontum BuAINvILLE, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., IX, 276, 1817. 
Species: Mastodon giganteum G. Cuvier, from the Pleistocene of North America; 
and M. angustidens G. Cuvier, from the Miocene of Europe. 
Name antedated by Mammut Blumenbach, 1799. 
Extinct. 
Mastodon: “ax6ros, breast; 65@v—660vs, tooth—in allusion to the mammillary 
prominences or processes on the molar teeth. 
Mastonotus WEswxaEL, 1841. Glires, Octodontid:e. 
** Bull. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles, 1841, 2° pt., 61" (fide WATERHOUSE, Nat. Hist. Mamm., 
II, 296, 297, 1848). 
Type: Mastonotus popelairi Wesmael ( — Mus coypus Molina), from South America. 
Name antedated by Myocastor Kerr, 1792. 
Mastonotus: a6ros, breast; vy@ros, back—in allusion to the mamm:e which are 
situated high up on the flanks. 
Mastotherium 6G. FiscuEgn, 1814. Ungulata, Proboscidea, Elephantid:e. 
[Zoognosia, I, 3d ed., 15, 1813—nomen nudum. ] 
Zoognosia, III, 337-341, 1814. 
Species, 5: M. megalodon (Cuvier), M. leptodon (Cuvier), M. microdon (Cuvier), 
M. hyodon (Cuvier), and M. humboldtii (Cuvier). 
New name for ‘Mastodonte’ Cuvier, 1806, apparently substituted because the 
species are extinct. *'Auctor vero preetulit nomen ro Mastotherium, ad legem 
generalem, a celeberrimo Cuvier ipso tacite consecratam, conservandam, seg- 
undam quam, animalia nimirum fossilia, ut terminatione, simili in therium in 
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