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Paradoxomys—Continued. 
Type: Paradoxomys cancrivorus Ameghino, from the barrancas del Paraná, Argen- 
tina. 
Extinct. Based on a right mandible. 
Paradoxomys: Taped oéos, strange, incredible; 0s, mouse. 
Paradoxurus F. Cuvier, 1821. - Fere, Viverride. 
Hist. Nat. Mamm., III, livr. xxiv, pl. with 5 pp. text (under ‘la Martre des 
palmiers?), Jan., 1821; Bull. Sci. Soc. Philomatique, 103-104, July, 1822; 
Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 530—539, 4 figs. in text. 
Type: Paradoxurus typus F. Cuvier, from Pondicherry, India. 
Paradoxurus: zap&8o£oc, strange, marvelous; ovpd, tail—from the mistaken 
idea that the tail was prehensile. Though the tail is not prehensile the animal 
has the power of coiling it to some extent, and according to Blanford ‘‘in caged 
specimens the coiled condition not infrequently becomes confirmed and per- 
manent." | 
Paraechinus (subgenus of Erinaceus) TRovEssART, 1879. Insectivora, Erinaceid:e. 
Revue et Mag. de Zool., Paris, 3* sér., VII, 242, 1879; Cat. Mamm. Viv. et Foss., 
Insectivora, 24, 1880. 
Species: Hrinaceus pictus Stolieska, and /. micropus Blyth, from India. 
Paraechinus: mapa, near; éxivos, hedgehog. 
Paraepanorthus Amecuino, 1894. Marsupialia, Epanorthidee. 
Énum. Syn. Mamm. Foss. Form. Éocénes Patagonie, 93-95, fig. 40, Feb., 1894. 
Type: Palaeothentes minutus Ameghino, from the barrancas of the Rio Santa Cruz 
southern Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Paraepanorthus: mapa, near; + Epanorthus. 
Paragalia (subgenus of Perameles) Gray, 1841. Marsupialia, Peramelidee. 
Gray, in Grey's Journ. Two Expd. N. W. and West Australia, App. II, 401, 1841. 
Perigalea Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. xxii, 1843. 
Paragalea GRAY, ibid., p. 96 (raised to generic rank). 
Peragalea Goutp, Mamm. Australia, I, pl. vir, 1845. 
Peragale Tuomas, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 5th ser., XIX, 397-399, June, 1887; 
Cat. Marsup. & Monotrem. Brit. Mus., 221, 1888; LvpEKKER, Cat. Foss. Mamm. 
Brit. Mus., pt. v, 256, 1887. 
Type: Perameles lagotis Reid, from Swan River, Western Australia. 
Name antedated by Thylacomys Owen, 1840. 
Paragalia (Peragale): mnpa, pouch; «A5, weasel. 
Parahippus (subg. of Anchitherium) Lerpy, 1858. Ungulata, Perissodactyla, Equidze. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, 26; Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., VII, 
313-315, 402, pl. xxr figs. 7-10, 1869 (raised to generic rank). 
Type: Anchitherium ( Parahippus) cognatus Leidy, from the Miocene of the valley 
of the Niobrara River, Nebraska. 
Zxtinet. Based on ‘three isolated unworn crowns of upper molar teeth.’ 
Parahippus: zc, beside, near; ?z70s , horse. 
Parahyus Mansu, 1876. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suidze? 
Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 3d ser., XII, 402, Nov., 1876. 
Type: Parahyus vagus Marsh, from the lower Eocene of Wyoming. 
Extinct. 
Parahyus: mapa, beside, near; vc, BOs, hog. 
Parailurus Scnrossken, 1899. Fer:, Procyonidie. 
Mittheil. aus Jahrb. K. Ungar. Geol. Anstalt, XIII, Heft 2, pp. 9-19, Taf. x 
fig. 1, x1 figs. 2-5, 7,8, 10, 11, Nov., 1899. 
Type: Ailurus anglicus Dawkins, from the Red Crag of Felixstowe, England. 
Extinet. Based on a portion of the right lower jaw with the last molar. 
Parailurus: wapc, near; eAovpos, cat. 
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