446 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Myzopoda MinxE-EpwaARps & GRANDIDIER, 1878. Chiroptera, Vespertilionidee. 
Bull. Soc. Philomathique, Paris, 7° sér., IT, 220-221, June 22, 1878. 
Myxopoda Doxson, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1878, 871-875 (read Nov. 5, 1878). 
Type: Myzopoda aurita Milne-Edwards & Grandidier, from Madagascar. 
Myzopoda: p v&&c, to suck; zovs, foot (not 45a, mucus; zovs, foot, as given 
by Dobson) —in allusion to the suctorial disks on the thumbs and feet. 
INE 
Neemorhedus (subg. of Antilope) H. Smrrn, 1827. Ungulata, Bovidee. 
Griffith’s Cuvier, Animal Kingdom, V, 352-353, 1827; Gray, List Spec. Mamm. 
Brit. Mus., pp. xxvi, 166, 1843 (raised to generic rank). 
. Nemorhedus J. B. Fiscner, Syn. Mamm., Addenda, 425 (misprint for 625), 1830. 
Nemorhxdus Hopason, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, X, pt. 2, p. 913, 1841. 
Nemorrhedus Gray, List. Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pp. xxvi, 166, 1843. 
Species: Antilope sumatrensis Shaw, from Sumatra; and A. goral Hardwicke, from 
Nepal, India. 
Nemorhedus: Lat. nemus, nemoris, a wood; hxedus, a young goat—in allusion to 
its habitat ‘in mountainous and woody regions.’ 
Nagor * (subg. of Antilope) LavRILLARD, 1841. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovide. 
D’ Orbigny’s Dict. Univ. Hist. Nat., I, 621-622, 1841; ScrATER & THomas, Book 
of Antelopes, II, pt. vim, 155, Mar. 9, 1887 (in synonymy). 
Species, 6: Antilope redunca Pallas (type), A. eleotragus Schreber (?), A. lalandii 
(=A. lalandia Desmoulins), A. defassa Rüppell, A. ellipsiprymnus Ogilby, and 
A. unctuosa Laurillard, all from Africa. 
Nagor: A name adopted by Buffon on account of a fancied resemblance of 
Antilope redunca to the ‘nanguer’ (Gazella dama). (See Nanger.) 
Nandinia Gray, 18438. Fere, Viverridz. 
List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pp. xx, 54, 1843; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 
529-530; Cat. Carn., Pachyderm., & Edentate Mamm. Brit. Mus., 62-63, 1869. 
Type: Viverra binotata Reinwardt, from Fernando Po, West Africa. 
Nandinia: From a native name. 
Nanelaphus FirzixGER, 1874. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervidee. 
[Anzeiger Math.- Nat. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss., Wien, X, Nr. 29-30, p. 198, 1878— 
nomen nudum. ] 
Sitzungsber. Math.- Nat. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss., Wien, LXVIII, Abth. r, for 1873, 
360-361, 1874. : 
Species: Cervus namby Natterer, from Brazil; and Capra pudu Molina, from Chile. 
Nanelaphus: v &voc, dwartt; élagos, deer. 
Nanger LaraAsrE, 1885. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovide. 
* Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, XXXIX, 173, 1885" (fide ScLATER & THomas, Book 
of Antelopes, III, 65, 1898). 
Type: Antilope (Dama) mohr Bennett, from northwest Africa (ScLATER & THomas. ) 
Nanger: nanguer, native name in Senegal. ‘‘Adanson’s names of Nanguer and 
Nagor (passim), are evidently different modes of spelling and pronouncing the 
Bornou, Engry, and Begharmu Ngria, which, according to Denham, signifies 
gazelle." (H. Smirx, Griffith’s Cuvier, IV, 207, 1827.) 

* This name is not found in the paper referred to by Agassiz's Nomenclator Zoologi- 
cus: *Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1836.’ 
t The application of the prefix Nano- or Nanno-, d wart, like Micro-, small, is usually 
self-evident. 
