598 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Puelia— Continued. 
Extinct. 
Puelia: Puelo, name of a lake and river on the west slope of the Andes, Chile, 
S: late 422: 
Pugmeodon Kavr, 1838. Sirenia, Halitheriid:e. 
Neues Jahrb. Mineralogie, 1838, 319, Taf. rr fig. c 1, 2. 
Type: Pugmeodon schinzii Kaup, from the Oligocene of Flonheim, Rhein-Hessen, 
Germany. 
Extinet. Based on ‘einen Zahn, wahrscheinlich der erste des linken Ober- 
kiefers.’ 
Pugmeodon: mvy jo), fist; 00r = d60vs, tooth. 
Puma JArpine, 1834. Fer, Felide. 
Jardine’s Nat. Library, Mamm., II, 266-267, 1834; 2d ed., Mamm., I, 179-180, 
1858; II, 266-267, 1858; RErcuENBACH, Deutschlands Fauna, I, Siiugvh., p. xiii, 
1837. 
Species, 6: Felis concolor Linneeus (type), PF. nigra Griffith, F. yaguarundi Lacépéde, 
F. eyra Desmarest, F. pajeros Desmarest, and F. chalybeata H. Smith, from 
America, 
Puma: Peruvian name of the animal. 
Pusa Scororr, 1777. Fer, Pinnipedia, Phocide. 
Introd. Hist. Nat., 490, 1777; Herrmann, Beschift. Berlin. Gesellsch. Naturf. 
Freunde, IV, 464 footnote, 1779; Gri, Johnson's New Univ. Cycl., III, 1226, 
1878 (= Halicherus grypus) ; ALLEN, Hist. N. Am. Pinnipeds, 462, 557, 683-689, 
1880. 
Type: Phoca fwtida Fabricius (= P. hispida Schreber), from the coasts of Green- 
land and Labrador. (See ALLEN, l. c., p. 557.) 
Pusa: According to Houttuyn (Nat. Hist., I, Stuck rm, 15, 1761), and Müller 
( Natursyst., I, 199, 1773), simply the Greenlandic word for seal. Scopoli appar- 
ently derived it from Anderson (Efterr. om Strat-Davis, lv), who, according 
to Fabricius, spelled it Pusa incorrectly. Puirse is given by Fabricus as one of 
the Greenlandie names of the harp seal. (For further discussion of the word, 
see ALLEN, N. Am. Pinnipeds, 683, 1880.) 
Pusa OKeEn, 1816. Fer, Mustelidze. 
Lehrbuch Naturgesch., 3ter Theil, 2te Abth., 986-987, 1816. 
Type: Pusa orientalis (= Mustela lutris=Lutra marina), from the coasts of north- 
eastern Asia and northwestern America and the intervening islands. 
Name preoccupied by Pusa Scopoli, 1777, a genus of Phocidee. (See Latax 
Gloger, 1827.) 

Putoriodus (Bravarp MS.) Gervais, 1848-52. Fer, Mustelide. 
BRAVARD, in Gervais’ Zool. et Paléont. Frangaises, 1° éd., II, expl. pl. xxvni fig. 9, 
p. 7, 1848-52; 2* éd., 253 (under Mustela putoriodus), Atlas, VII, pl. 27 fig. 9, 1859. 
Type: Mustela putoriodus Bravard, from the Miocene of Limagne, Dépt. Puy-de- 
Dóme, France. 
Extinct. Based on a lower jaw with teeth. 
Putoriodus: Putorius; 630s, tooth. 
Putorius Fuiscu, 1775. Fere, Mustelide. 
Das Natur-System vierfüss. Thiere, in Tabellen, 11, Tab. Gen., 1775; G. CuvrER, 
Régne Animal, I, 147-149, 1817; 2* éd., 143-144, 1829 (subgenus); Gray, List 
Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pp. xx, 64, 1843 (raised to generic rank); MiLLER & 
REns, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., X X X, 220-226, Dec., 1901 (type fixed). 
Pictorius Gray, Cat. Carn., Pachyderm., & Edentate Mamm. Brit. Mus., 145, 
1869 (misprint). 
