470 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Odobenotherium—Continued. 
Type: Odobenotherium lartetianum Gratiolet, from Montrouge, near Paris, France. 
Extinct. Based on part of a skull. ‘‘ Fossile Reste von Walrossen sind selten, 
obwohl sie ófters irrthumlich citirt wurden. So beschreibt . . . Gratiolet 
einen Schüdel von Montrouge bei Paris, der offenbar von einem recenten 
Individuum berrüht."  (ZrrTEL. ) 
Odobenotherium: Odobenus; Onptov, wild beast—i. e., an extinct Odobenus. 
Odobenus Brisson, 1762. Fer, Pinnipedia, Odobenide. 
Regnum Animale in Classes IX distrib., 2d ed., 12, 30-31, 1762; Merrram, 
Science, new ser., I, No. 14, p. 375, Apr. 5, 1895 (type fixed). 
Odontob:enus SrEENSTRUP, in letter to Sundevall, Ofvers. K. Vetensk. Akad. 
Fórhandl., Stockholm, XVI, No. 10, for Dec. 14, 1859, 441—442, 1860. 
Hodobznus, Udobenus SUNDEVALL, ibid., XVI, 442, 1860. 
Odobenus ** MauMGREN, Ofvers. K. Vetensk. Akad. Fórhandl., Stockholm, for 
1863, 130, 1864;’? ALLEN, Hist. N. Am. Pinnipeds, 14-186, figs. 1-36, 1880. 
Type: Odobenus odobenus Brisson (= Phoca rosmarus Linnzeus), from the Arctic 
Ocean. 
Odobenus: 6600s, ó6óvroc, tooth; faívc, to walk—in allusion to the alleged use 
of the tusks in progression and climbing overrocks. Seeobservations of Brown 
and Kane referred to in Allen's * Pinnipeds, p. 138. An old legend quoted by 
Gesner in 1558 is given in the English version of Olaus Magnus, as follows: 
‘“They will raise themselves with their Teeth as by Ladders to the very tops 
of Rocks, that they may feed on the Dewie Grasse, or fresh water, and role 
themselves in it." (ALLEN, ibid., p. 83.) 
Odobenus RarrNEsQUE, 1815. Sirenia, Dugongidze. 
Analyse de la Nature, 60, 1815. 
New name for Dugong Lacépede, 1799 (*Odobenus R.; Dugong Lac." ). 
Name preoccupied by Odobenus Brisson, 1762, a genus of Ferze. 
Odocerus RarrNEsQUE, 1815. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suidze. 
Analyse de la Nature, 56, 1815 (nomen nudum). 
Type: Aper sp. (‘‘Odocerus R., Aper sp.—App.’’). 
Odocerus: 6600s, tooth; Képas, horn. 
Odocoileus RarrxEsqQUE, 1832. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervidee. 
Atlantic Journal, I, No. 3, pp. 109-110, 1 fig. in text, autumn of 1832; Lery, 
Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., VII, 376, 1869 (under Cervus virginianus); 
Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XII, 99-100, Apr. 30, 1898 (name reinstated). 
Odocelus G. M. ALLEN, Am. Nat., XXXV, 449, June, 1901; LvpEKKER, Zool. 
Record for 1901, X X XVIII, Mamm., 35, 1902. 
Odontocelus ScLATER, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th ser., IX, 290, Apr. 1, 1902. 
Type: Odocoileus speleus Rafinesque ( — Cervus virginianus Boddaert) from **the big 
cave of Carlisle, in [Cumberland County] Pennsylvania . . . situated in the 
3ig [Cumberland] Valley, between the South and North Mountains, about 1 
mile north of Carlisle, on the banks of the Conocochig [Conodoguinet] Creek."? 
Based on an upper premolar. (Lkrpv.) 
Antedates Dorcelaphus Gloger, Cariacus Lesson, and Oplacerus Haldeman. 
Odocoileus: 66005, tooth; KotAos, hollowed—‘meaning teeth well hollowed.’ 
(RaAFINESQUE. ) ‘Ought to be spelled Odontocelus’ (Cours, epist., Aug. 14, 1898). 
Odontobzenus (see Odobenus). Fer:e, Pinnipedia, Odobenid:e. 
Mdontoccelus (see Odocoileus). Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervidee. 
Odontodorcus GisrEL, 1848. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervide. 
Naturgesch. Thierreichs fur héhere Schulen, 82, 1848. 
Species: Moschus tragulus(!) and M. moschiferus Linnzeus, from the mountains of 
southern and eastern Asia. 
Odontodorcus: 6600s, 00 óvrosc, tooth; dopKds, antelope—in allusion to the long, 
sharp upper canines of the male, which project downward out of the mouth. 
