PHOCAGENEUS—PHORBANTUS. 588 
Phocageneus Lripy, 1869. Cete, Platanistide. 
Syn. Extinct Mamm. N. Am., in Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., VII, 426- 
427, pl. xxix fig. 10, 1869. 
Phocogeneus ZirreL, Handb. Palaeont., IV, Lief. 1, p. 171, 1892. 
Type: Phocageneus venustus Leidy, from the Miocene near Richmond, Virginia. 
Extinct. Based on a tooth. 
Phocageneus: amy, seal; yeved, race, offspring. 
Phocanella Van BENEDEN, 1876. Feree, Pinnipedia, Phocid:e. 
Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Belgique, 2* sér., XLI, 799, 1876. 
Procanella C. O. W AàTERHOUSE, Index Zool., 304, 1902 (misprint). 
Species: Phocanella pumila Van Beneden, and P. minor Van Beneden, from the 
Antwerp basin, Belgium. 
Extinct. Each species is based on ‘des os du bassin et les principaux os des 
membres,’ but also in the case of P. minor on some vertebrae. 
Phocanella: Dim. of Phoca. 
Phocarctos (subgenus of Otaria) PETERS, 1866. Ferze, Pinnipedia, Otariide. 
Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 1866, 269; Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist., 3d ser., XVIII, 234, Sept., 1866 (raised to generic rank). 
Type: Arctocephalus hookeri Gray, {rom the Falkland Islands. 
Phocarctos: Phoca; &pKtos, bear—from its skull, which resembles that of a bear. 
Phococetus Gervais, 1876. Cete, Squalodontide. 
Journ. de Zoologie, V, No. 1, pp. 64-70, 2 figs. in text, 1876. 
Type: Zeuglodon vasconum Delfortrie, from Saint-Médard-en-Jalle, near Bordeaux, 
France. 
Extinct. Based on a single tooth. 
Phococetus: Phoca; Ky os, whale. 
Phócochórus (see Phaco-cheerus. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suide. 
Phocodon Acassiz, 1841. Cete, Squalodontid:e. 
Valentin's Repertorium Anat. et Physiol., Bern et St. Gallen, VI, 236, 1841. 
Type: Phocodon scille Agassiz, from Malta (locality fide Zittel, Handb. Palzeont., 
p.171). *'Blainville . . . bezweifelt meine Angabe über das von Scilla Tab. 
xir als Fischfragment abgebildete Kieferfragment. Ich habe das jetzt in 
Cambridge befindliche Exemplar untersucht und für ein Phokengebiss erkannt 
. . Uebrigens ist dieses fossile Thier auch schon in Deutschland und zwar 
im Bohnerze des Schwarzwaldes aufgefunden worden." (AGAssiIz. ) 
Extinct. Based on part of a jaw with teeth. 
Phocodon: c5, seal; ó8c v = ddo0vs, tooth. 
Phoccena (see Phoceena). Cete, Delphinide. 
Phocogeneus (see Phocageneus). Cete, Platanistid:e. 
Pholidotus Brisson, 1762. Effodientia, Manid:e. 
Regnum Animale in Classes IX distrib., 2d ed., 12, 18-20, 1762; Sronn, Prodro- 
mus Methodi Mamm., 40, Tab. p, 1780; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, 365. 
Species: Pholidotus and Pholidotus longicaudatus, from Africa. 
Pholidotus: oAi8crós, armed, clad with scales (from @odis, scale) 
scaly covering or armor. 
Phonocdromus AmEGHINO, 1894. Marsupialia, Garzonid:e. 
Enum. Syn. Mamm. Foss. Form. Eocénes de Patagonie, 99-100, Feb., 1894. 
Species: Phonocdromus patagonicus Ameghino; and P. gracilis Ameghino, from the 
Eocene of Patagonia. 

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Extinct. 
Phonocdromus: Contraction of @ovoKrovos murdering; Spoevs, runner. 
Phorbantus GisrEL, 1848. Glires, Sciurid:e. 
Naturgesch. Thierreichs für hóhere Schulen, p. viii, 1848 (under Anisonyx). 
