409 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Oxyodontherium AmeEGuHINo, 1883. Ungulata, Litopterna, Macraucheniide. 
Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Cérdoba, V, entr. 3, pp. 284-288, 1883; Cont. Conocimiento 
Mamíf. Fósil. Repub. Argentina, in Act. Acad. Nac. Cien., Córdoba, VI, 543- 
546, pls. xxi figs. 1-9, Lxx fig. 1, 1889. 3 
Oxyodontotherium THOMAS Zool. Record for 1883, XX, Index to New Genera, 
p- 9, 1884. 
Type: Oxyodontherium zeballozi Ameghino, from the barrancas del Paraná, Entre 
Rios, Argentina. ; 
Extinct. Based on a portion of the right mandible and four molars. 
Oxyodontherium: 620s, sharp; 660s, d06rros, tooth; 07piov, wild beast. 
Oxypterus Rarinesque, 1814. Cete, Physeteride. 
Précis des Découvertes et Travaux Somiologiques entre 1800 et 1814, p. 13, 1814; 
Analyse de la Nature, 60, 1815; Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., 2e éd., IX, 
163, 1817. 
Ovipterus MiNÀ Patumpo, Cat. Mamm. Sicilia, in Ann. Agr. Sic., 2d ser., XII, 
116-117, 1868. 
Type: Oxypterus mongitori Rafinesque, from the Mediterranean Sea (quoted under 
Epiodon urganantus from the * Mastadologie Sicilienne’ ). 
Oxypterus: 620s, sharp; zrepóv, fin. 
Oxyrhin Kavr, 1829. Insectivora, Soricidee. 
Entw.-Gesch. & Nat. Syst. Europ. Thierwelt, I, 119, 120, 1829. 
Oxyrrhin Kaur, ibid., 188, 1829. 
Species: Sorex constrictus Hermann, and S. tetragonurus Hermann, from Europe. 
Oxyrhin: 620s, sharp, pointed; fis, Ó1v ds, nose. 
Oxyrhinus Narrerer MS., 1883. Chiroptera, Noctilionide. 
NATTERER, in Pelzeln’s Er isil. Sàugeth., Verhandl. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Gesellsch., 
Wien, Beiheft zu Bd. XXXIII, 39, 1883 (in synonymy ). 
Type: Ovyrhinus bistriatus Natterer MS., from Brazil (near Rio Janeiro? ). 
Name preoccupied by Oxyrhinus Amyot & Serville, 1845, a genus of Hemiptera. 
Oxyrhinus: 620s, sharp; (is, 6tv 0s, nose. 
Oxystomus G. FiscHer, 1803. Sirenia, Trichechide. 
Das National-Museum Naturgesch. zu Paris, II, 353, 1803; Zoognosia, I, 3d ed., 
15, 19,1813. 
Type: Oxystomus manatus (= Trichechus manatus Linnzeus), from tropical America. 
Oxystomus: 6€Us, sharp; 6TO“a, mouth. 
Ozanna (subg. of Antilope) RErcHENBACH, 1845. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovide. 
Vollstiind. Naturgesch. In- und Auslandes, Sáugeth., III, 126-131, Taf. xxxix-xr, 
1845; ScLATER & THomas, Book of Antelopes, IV, pt. x11, 3, 32, Feb., 1899 
(in synonymy, type fixed). 
Species, 5 sine nigra Harris (type), A. barbata H. Smith, A. grandicornis 
roe A. equina Geoffroy, and A. leucophxa Pallas, from Africa. 
Antedates Hippotragus Sundevall, 1846. 
Ozanna: Apparently a native name. 
Ozolictis GrocER 1841. Ferze, Mustelidze. 
Hand- u. Hilfsbuch Naturgesch., I, pp. xxix, 74-75, 1841; THomas, Ann. & 
Mag. Nat. Hist., 6th ser., XV, 190, Feb. 1, 1895. 
New name for Jclonyx Kaup, 1835. (By an error on p. xxix, the same name is also 
given to the New World skunks of the genus Thiosmus Lichtenstein, 1838.) 
Antedated by Zorilla Oken, 1816; and by Rhabodogale Wiegmann, 1838. 
Ozolictis: 6£0A1s, strong smelling; Z«r:, weasel—from the animal's offensive odor. 
Ozotoceras AmMEGHINO, 1891. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervidee. 
Revista Argentina Hist. Nat., I, entr. 4a, p. 243, Aug. 1, 1891. 
New name for ‘ Blastoceros Gray, 1872,’ which is said to be preoccupied by Blasto- 
cera Gerstaecker, 1856, a genus of Diptera.  Blastocerus was described as a sub- 
genus by Wagner, in 1844, and was first used by Gray, in 1850, six years before 
the publication of Blastocera Gerstaecker. 
Ozotoceras: 6€e@r0s, branched; Képas, horn—in allusion to the large complex 
antlers. 
