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Phyllostomus— Continued. : 
Phyllostoma Cuvier, Tableau Élém. Hist. Nat., 105-106, 1798 [* Les Phyllostomes' ]; 
Lecons d'Anat. Comp., I, 1800, Tableau 1 (names only, Phyllostomes—Phyl- 
lostoma); Grorrroy, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, XV, 174, 1810. 
Type: Vespertilio hastatus Pallas, from South America. 
Phyllostoma: AAov, leaf; 6róua, mouth—from the conspicuous nose-leaf. 
Phyllotis (subgenus of Mus) WarERHOUSE, 1837. Glires, Murid:e, Cricetine. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, No. 1, Nov. 21, 1837, pp. 27-28; FrrziNGER, Sitzungsber. 
Math.-Nat. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss., Wien, LVI, 83-84, 1867 (raised to generic 
rank). 
Type: Mus ( Phyllotis) darwinii Waterhouse, from Coquimbo, Chile. 
Phyllotis: @UAXor, leaf; obs, rds, ear—from ‘its large, leaf-like ears.’ 
Phyllotis Gray, 1866. Chiroptera, Rhinolophide. 
Proce. Zool. Soc. London, 1866, 81. 
Type: Phyllotis philippensis ( — Rhinolophus philippinensis Waterhouse), from the 
Philippine Islands. 
Name preoccupied by Phyllotis Waterhouse, 1837, a genus of Muride. 
Physalus L4cÉrEpE, 1804. Cete, Baleenide. 
Hist. Nat. Cétacées, Tableau Ordres, Genres et Espéces, pp. xl, 219-226, 1804. 
Physelus RAFINESQUE, Analyse de la Nature, 60, 1815. 
** Phujsalis FLEMING, B. A., 1828" (fide Gray, Cat. Seals & Whales Brit. Mus., 
39, 1866). 
Type: Physalus cylindricus Lacépéde, from the Arctic or North Atlantic Ocean. 
Physalus: ptvGados, whale. 
Physeter Linn xvs, 1758. Cete, Physeteridee. 
Systema Nature, 10th ed., I, 76-77, 1758; 12th ed., I, 107, 1766; W. L. SCLATER, 
Mamm. 8. Africa, II, 185-188, figs. 140-141, 1901 (type fixed). 
Physeterus DvMÉRIL, Zool. Anal., 28, 1806. 
Physeteres Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., LEX, 518, 1829 (not a French name). 
Species, 4: Physeter catodon Linnzeus, from the Arctic Ocean; P. macrocephalus 
Linneeus (type), from the Atlantic Ocean; P. microps Linnzeus, and P. tursio 
Linn:eus, from the Arctic Ocean. 
Physeter: Óvónrnp, blowpipe, a whale ( $vó«c, to blow) 
or blowhole. 
Physeterula Van BENEDEN, 1877. Cete, Physeteride. 
Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. de Belgique, 2° sér., XLIV, 851-856, pl. —, 1877. 
Type: Physeterula dubusii Van Beneden, from the Antwerp Crag, Belgium. 
Extinct. Based on ‘un maxillaire inférieur 4 peu prés complet.’ 
Physeterula: Dim. of Physeter. 
Physeterus (see Physeter). Cete, Physeteride. 
Physetodon McCoy, 1879. Cete, Physeteride. 
Geol. Surv. Victoria, Prodromus Paleont. Vict., dec. vr, 19-20, pl. rv, 1879. 
Type: Physetodon baileyi McCoy, from the lower Pliocene of Mordialloe, near 
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 
Extinct. Based on a ‘tooth about 10 inches long, and 2 inches wide at 


from the single spiracle 
middle.’ v 
Physetodon: Physeter; 66@v=66o0vs, tooth. 
Physodon Gervais, 1872. Cete, Physeteridze. 
Bull. Soc. Géol. de France, 2° sér., X XIX, No. 2, p. 101, May, 1872. 
Type: Physodon leccense Gervais, from the Miocene of Lecce, near Otranto, south- 
eastern Italy. 
Extinct. 
Physodon: Phys-(eter); 650v=66o0vs, tooth. ‘Je rapproche de préférence cet 
animal des cachalots parce que l'email de ses dents est recouvert d'une forte 
couche de cément."  (GERVAis.) 
