448 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Nanomys Mansi, 1889. Allotheria, Plagiaulacidze. 
Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 3d ser., XX XVIII, p. 85, pl. r1, figs. 9-12, July, 1889. 
Type: Nonomiys minutus Marsh, from the Cretaceous (Laramie) of Wyoming. 
Name preoccupied by Nannomys Peters, 1876, a subgenus of Muridz. Replaced 
by Nanomyops Marsh, 1892. 
Extinct. Based on ‘‘some very minute teeth, one of which, selected as the ty pe, 
is shown on pl. r1, figs. 9-12, three times natural size.”’ 
Nanomys: v&vos, dwarf; “0s, mouse—in allusion to the diminutive size of the 
type species. 
Nanonycteris (subg. of Epomophorus) MaArscurg, 1899. Chiroptera, Pteropodidze. 
Fledermiiuse Berliner Mus. Naturkunde, Lief. 1, Megachiroptera, 37, 58-59, 1899. 
Type: Epomophorus veldkampii Jentink, from Buluma, Fisherman Lake, Liberia. 
Nanonycteris: v&vos, dwarl; vv«repíts, bat. 
Nanotragus SuNpEvALr, 1846. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidee. 
K. Vetensk. Akad. Handlingar, Stockholm, for 1844, 191-192, 1846; ScLarER & 
Tuomas, Book of Antelopes, II, pt. v, 59, Jan., 1896 (in synonymy). 
Type: Neotragus spiniger (Temminck) =Antilope pygmxa (Linneeus), from West 
Africa. 
Name antedated by Neotragus H. Smith, 1827; and by Spinigera Lesson, 1842. 
Nanotragus: v&vos, dwart; rp&y os, goat. 
Napseozapus (subgenus of Zapus) PREBLE, 1899. Glires, Zapodidee. 
N. Am. Fauna No. 15, pp. 13, 33, pl. 1 fig. 1, fig. 2 in text, Aug. 8, 1899; MILLER, 
Bull. N. Y. State Mus., IV, 330, Nov. 18, 1899 (raised to generic rank). 
Type: Zapus insignis Miller, from the Restigouche River, New Brunswick. 
Napeozapus: vamaios, belonging to a wooded vale or dell; + Zapus—trom its 
habitat in deep woods near streams, in contrast with Zapus, which prefers 
shrubby fields and meadows. 
Napodonictis AmEcHino, 1894. Marsupialia, Borhy:enid:e. 
Énum. Syn. Mamm. Foss. Form. Éocénes Patagonie, 124—126, Feb., 1894. 
Type: Napodonictis thylacynoides Ameghino, from the Eocene of Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Napodonictis: vann, cleft, gully; 66@v=6ddo0vs, tooth; Z«r:s, weasel. 
Napu (subgenus of Moschus) Lesson, 1842. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Tragulide. 
Nouv. Tableau Régne Animal, Mamm., 175, 1842. 
Type: Moschus napu F. Cuvier, from Sumatra. 
Napu: Native name used by the Malays and first adopted as a specific name by 
Cuvier. 
Naricornis Friscn, 1775. Ungulata, Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotide. 
Das Natur-System vierfüss. Thiere, in Tabellen, Tab. Gen., 1775. 
New Name for Rhinoceros Linnzeus, 1758. Based on ‘das Nashorn.’ 
Naricornis: Lat., naris, nose; cornu, horn—a Latin equivalent of Rhinoceros. 
Narwalus* Lacreprpr, 1804. Cete, Delphinidz. 
Hist. Nat. Cétacées, pp. xxxvii-xxxviii, 142-163, pl. 9, fig. 1, 1804. 
Narvallus BugNETT, Quart. Jour. Sci., Lit. & Art, X XIX, 361, Apr.-June, 1830. 
Narwhalus Lesson, Compl. CEuvres de Buffon, Hist. Nat. Mamm. Ois. découv. 
depuis 1788, I, 440, 1828; AGasstz, Nomenclator Zool., Mamm., 22, 1842; Jar- 
dine, Nat. Library, 2d ed., Mamm., I, 265, 1858; XII, 182-190, pl. 11, 1861. 
Species, 3: Narwalus vulgaris Lacépéde (= Monodon monoceros Linnzeus), N. micro- 
cephalus Lacépéde, and N. andersonianus Lacépéde, from the Atlantic Ocean. 
Narwhal: Swed., Dan., narhval = Icel. nàhvalr, narwhal. 


** Narwhal Walbaum,’ Petri Artedi Sueci, Gen. Piscium, 558-560, 1792, quoted by 
Sherborn (Index Anim., 646, 1902) is not a valid generic name. It occurs in the 
forms ‘Narwhal Islandiis’ and ‘Narwhal Kleinii,’ meaning simply the narwhal of 
the Icelanders and the narwhal of Klein (p. 552). 
