SOTALIA—SPANIOMYS. 091 
Sotalia Gray, 1866. Cete, Delphinidee. 
Cat. Seals & Whales Brit. Mus., 393, 401—402, 1866; Suppl. Cat. Seals & Whales 
Brit. Mus., 67, 1871. 
Type: Delphinus guianensis Van Beneden, from British Guiana. 
Sotalia: Apparently a coined name. 
Sousa (subgenus of Steno) Gray, 1866. Cete, Delphinidz. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1866, 213; Syn. Whales & Dolphins Brit. Mus., 5, 1868. 
Species: Steno capensis Gray, from the Cape of Good Hope; and 5. lentiginosus 
Gray, from India. 
Spalacodon CnanLEswonTH, 1844. Marsupialia, Didelphyidee? 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., XIV, 350 footnote, Nov., 1844; Proc. Brit. Ass. Adv. 
Sci. for 1844, Abstracts, etc., p. 50, 1845. 
Type (species not given), from Hordwell Cliff, Hampshire, England. 
Extinct. Based on part of the upper jaw and a considerable portion of the 
lower jaw. 
Spalacodon: 6z&Aa&, éóz&Aekos, mole; 65@v=d60vs, tooth. 
Spalacomys Prrers, 1861. Glires, Muridee, Murinee. 
Abhandl. K. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, for 1860, 139-147, Taf. 11 fig. 1, 1861. 
Type: Spalacomys indicus Peters, from eastern India. 
Spalacomys: 6z&A«&, ózáAakos, mole; “0s, mouse—‘mole rat,’ from its bur- 
rowing habits. 
Spalacopus WacrEn, 1832. Glires, Octodontide. 
Oken's Isis, 1832, 1219-1220. 
Type: Spalacopus poeppigii Wagler (=Psammoryctes noctivagus Poeppig, 1835), 
from the foot of the Andes, Chile. 
Spalacopus: 6z&Aa&, 6z&Aakos, mole; xovs, foot—from its burrowing habits, 
and its resemblance to Spalax. (Brpparp, Mamm., 487, 1902.) 
Spalacotherium Owen, 1854. Marsupialia, Triconodontide. 
Bull. Soc. Géol. de France, 2° sér., XI, feuilles 27-31, p. 482, Aug., 1854; Quart. 
Journ. Geol. Soc. London, X, pt. 4, No. 40, pp. 426-433, figs. 9-12 in text, Nov. 
1, 1854. 
Spalotherium M ^RsCHALL, Nomenclator Zool., Mamm., 12, 1873 (misprint). 
Type: Spalacotherium tricuspidens Owen, from the Purbeck formation at Durdle- 
stone Bay, Dorsetshire, England. 
Extinct. Based on portions of several lower jaws. 
Spalacotherium: OmcAaé, éz&áAakos, mole; Inpior, wild beast. 
Spalax GUELDENsTAEDT, 1770. Glires, Spalacid:e. 
Nov. Comment. Acad. Sci. Petropolitanze, XIV, pt. 1, pp. 409-440, tab. vin, 1x, 
1770; LypexKer, in Flower & Lydekker's Mamm., Living & Extinct, 477, 1891. 
Sphalax Frorrer, Duméril’s Anal. Zool. aus Franz. mit Zusützen, 19, 1806; 
TIEDEMANN, Zoologie, 476, 1808. 
Type: Spalax microphthalmus Gueldenstaedt =S. typhlus (Pallas), 1778, from 
southern Russia. 
Spalax: 6z&Aa&, mole—in allusion to the cylindrical body, short limbs, incon- 
spieuous eyes and ears, large claws, and absence of tail. 
Spalotherium (see Spalacotherium). Marsupialia, Triconodontid:e. 
Spaniomys AmEGHINO, 1887. Glires, Octodontide. 
Enum. Sist. Especies Mamíf. Fós. Patagonia Austral, p. 10, Dec., 1887. 
Species: Spaniomys riparius Ameghino, and S. modestus Ameghino, from the lower 
Tertiary of Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Spaniomys: ONGVLOS, rare; /LUS, mouse. 
