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Rucervus—Continued. 
Recurvus JAGER & BEssELs, Petermann’s Geog. Mitth., XVI, 87, 1870 (misprint). 
Type: Cervus elaphoides Hodgson, from Nepal, India. 
Rucervus: Ru(sa); + Cervus. 
Rudolphius (subgenus of Sibbaldus) Gray, 1866. Cete, Baleenidee. 
Cat. Seals & Whales Brit. Mus., 170-175, figs. 37, 38, 1866; Syn. Whales & Dol- 
phins, 3, 1868 (raised to generic rank. ) 
Type: Balenoptera laticeps Gray (= Balena rostrata Rudolphi, not Hunter), from 
the North Sea. 
Name preoccupied (?) by Rudolpha Schumacher, 1817, a genus of Mollusea. 
Rudolphius: In honor of Karl Asmund Rudolphi, 1771-1832, professor at Grips- 
wald and Berlin, an eminent comparative anatomist and authority en Entozoa. 
He described the type species of Gray’s subgenus in the Abhandlungen of the 
Berlin Academy for 1820-21. 
Rukaia (subgenus of Macroxus) Gray, 1867. Glires, Sciuridee. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., X X, 275-276, Oct., 1867; THomas, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. London, 1897, 933 (type fixed). 
Species, 3: Sciurus macrourus Forster (type), from southern India; S. bicolor 
Sparrmann, and S. ephippium 8. Müller, from India and Borneo. 
Rukaia: Rukiya, Cingalese name of Sciurus macrourus (BLANFoRD, Fauna Brit. 
India, Mamm., 374, 1888-91). 
Rupicapra Friscu, 1775. Ungulata, Artiodactyia, Bovidee. 
Das Natur-System vierfüss. Thiere, in Tabellen, 2, Tab. Gen., 1775; BLAINVILLE, 
bull. Soc. Philomatique, Paris, May, 1816, 75. 
Type: ‘Die Gemse’ of Europe. Blainville's genus included 3 species: Antilope 
rupicapra (Linnzeus, type), from Europe; A. pudu Blainville, from South 
America; and A. americana Ord, from North America. 
Rupicapra: Lat., chamois (from rupes, rock; capra, goat). 
Rusa (subgenus of Cervus) H. Smrrn, 1827. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervidee. 
H. SwrrH, in Griffith’s Cuvier, Animal Kingdom, V, 309-312, 1827; Burnett, 
Quart. Journ. Sci. Lit. & Art, XXVIII, for Odi Dec, 1 1829, 353, 1830 (raised 
to generic rank); Gray, List. Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pp. xxvii, 179, 1843. 
Roussa HEvpE, Mém. Hist. Nat. Empire Chinois, II, 8, 1888. 
Russa JENTINK, ‘Notes Leyden Museum, XIX, 65, 1897. 
Species, 7: Cervus hippelaphus G. Cuvier, from nur C. unicolor Smith, from Cey- 
lon; €. aristotelis G. Cuvier, from India; €. equinus G. Cuvier, from Java and 
Sumatra; C. peronW G. € Tub. from Timor; C. ——— ? ihm Malacca; and 
C. mariannus Desmarest, from the Mariana or Ladrone Islands. 
Rusa: Malay name for deer. 
Ruscinomys Derrrrer, 1890. Glires, Octodontide. 
Mém. Soc. Géol. de France, Paléont., I, fase. 11, Mém. No. 3, pp. 60-61, pl. rv 
figs. 38, 38a, 1890. 
Type: Ruscinomys europzs Depéret, from the Pliocene of Serrat d'en Vaequer, 
Dépt. Pyrénées Orientales, southern France. 
Extinct. 
Ruscinomys: Ruscino, Roman name of a town in southern France (now Perpi- 
gnan), near the type locality; “0s, mouse. 
Russa (see Rusa). Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervid:e. 
Rutimeyeria Amecuino, 1901. Ungulata, Condylarthra, Meniscotheriidee. 
Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Córdoba, X VI, 385-386, July, 1901 (sep. pp. 39-40). 
Type: Rutimeyeria conulifera Ameghino, from the ‘Cretaceous’ of Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
