PLATYONYX —PLATY RRHINUS. 545 
Platyonyx—Continued. 
Species, 6: Platyonyx cuvierii Lund, P. owenii Lund, P. brogniartii Lund, P. buck- 
land Lund, P. blainvillii Lund, and P. minutus Lund, from the bone caves 
between the Rio das Velhas and Rio Paraopeba, Minas Geraés, Brazil. 
Name preoccupied by .Platyonyx Schónherr, 1826, a genus of Coleoptera. 
Replaced by Catonyx Ameghino, 1891. 
Extinct. 
Platyonyx: miarvs, broad, flat; 6vvz, claw—in allusion to the shape of the claw 
as contrasted with that of Megalonyx. ‘‘ Les ongles des mains sont un peu 
aplatis, tandis qu'ils sont dans les vrais Megalonyx trés comprimés." | (Luxp.) 
Platyphoca Van BENEDEN, 1876. Ferze, Pinnipedia, Phocide. 
Bull Acad. Roy. Sci. de Belgique, 2° sér., XLI, 798, 1876. 
Type: Platyphoca vulgaris Van Beneden, from the Antwerp basin, Belgium. 
Extinct. ‘‘Représenté . . . par des os de bassin et des membres." 
Platyphoca: xAatvs, broad, flat; +Phoca. 
Platyprosopos (see Platuprosopos). Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervide. 
Platypus Sua4w, 1799. Monotremata, Ornithorhynchide. 
Naturalist’s Miscellany, X, pls. 385, 386 with text (7 pp. unnumbered), June, 
1799; Gen. Zool., I, pt. r, 228, 1900. 
Type: Platypus anatinus Shaw, from Australia. 
Name preoccupied by Platypus Herbst, 1793, agenus of Coleoptera. Replaced by 
Dermipus Wiedemann, 1800, which, however, is antedated by Ornithorhynchus 
Blumenbach, 1800. 
Platypus: xAarv’rovs, broad-footed—in allusion to the broad webs of the fore feet. 
Platypyga Iuuicrr, 1811. Glires, Dasyproctide. 
Prodromus Syst. Mamm. et Avium, 93, 1811. 
Nomen nudum. Name only in synonymy under Dasyprocta. No earlier refer- 
ence found. 
Platypyga: mXarvs, broad; zvy?, rump. 
Platyrhynchus F. Cuyrrr, 1826. Ferze, Pinnipedia, Otariidze. 
[‘Platyrhynque’ F. Cuvier, Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, XI, 208-209, pl. 15 
fig. 2, 1824]; Dict. Sci. Nat., XXXIX, 554-555, 1826 (art. ‘Phoques’). 
Platyrhyncus F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., LIX, 465, 1829. 
Type: ' Phoca leonina (= Ctaria jubata of recent authors)," from the coasts of 
South America. (ALLEN, Mon. N. A. Pinnipeds, 190, 1880.) 
Name preoccupied by Platyrhynchus Desmarest, 1805, a genus of Birds. Replaced 
by Pontoleo Gloger, 1841. 
Platyrhynchus: rAatvppvyxos, broad-snouted (from zAar?$s, broad; ovy xoc, 
snout). 
Platyrhynchus Va4x BENEDEN, 1876. Cete, Platanistide. 
Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. de Belgique, 2* sér., XLI, 488-489, 1876. 
Type: Delphinus canaliculatus Meyer, from Oberschwaben, Germany. Probably 
a lapsus for Platydelphis Du Bus, 1872. ‘‘ Le vicomte Du Bus a proposé pour ce 
Dauphin [D. canaliculatus] le nom générique de Platyrhynchus.”’ 
Name preoccupied by Platyrhynchus Desmarest, 1805, a genus of Birds; and by 
Platyrhynchus Cuvier, 1826, a genus of Pinnipedia. 
Extinct. 
Platyrrhinus Dr Saussure, 1860. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatid:e. 
Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 2° sér., XII, 429-430, Oct., 1860. 
Type: Phyllostoma lineatum Geoffroy, from Paraguay. 
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