662 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Taphozous—Continued. 
Taphozous: ros, grave, tomb; Cds, living—living in tombs, hence ‘tomb 
bat’—from the fact that great numbers of these bats were found in the tombs 
by the great French expedition which collected the type during its investiga- 
tions in Egypt at the beginning of the nineteenth century. 
Tapinodon Meyer, 1846. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Anthracotheriide. 
Neues Jahrbuch Mineralogie, 1846, 471. ‘ 
Type: Tapinodon gresslyi Meyer, from the Tertiary of Egerkingen in Solothurn, 
Switzerland. 
Extinct. 
Tapinodon: rameivos, low; dd@v = ddovs, tooth. 
Tapinotherium Mercerar,* 1891. Edentata, Megalonychid:e. 
Revista Mus. La Plata, II, 17-18, 1891. 
Type: Tapinotherium aguirrei Mercerat, from Monte Leon, Patagonia. 
Extinct. Based on a cranium somewhat injured superiorly. 
Tapinotherium: tamervos, low; Onpiov, wild beast. 
Tapir (see Tapirus). Ungulata, Perissodactyla, Tapiridze. 
Tapiravus Marsu, 1877. Ungulata, Perissodactyla, Tapirid:ze. 
Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 3d ser., XIV, 252, Sept., 1877. 
Type: Lophiodon validus Marsh, from the Miocene of Cumberland Co., New Jersey. 
Extinct. 
Tapiravus: Tapir; Lat. avus, grandfather—i. e., an ancestral tapir. 
Tapirella Parmer, 1903. Ungulata, Perissodactyla, Tapirid:e. 
Science, new ser., XVII, 873, May 29, 1903. 
New name for Elasmognathus Gill, 1865, which is preoccupied by Zlasmognathus 
Fieber, 1844, a genus of Hemiptera. 
Tapirella: Dim. of Tapirus. 
Tapiroporcus JicEgn, 1835. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suidze. 
Die Fossilen Siiugethiere in Würtemberg, Iste Abtheil., 40, 43, Tab. Iv figs. 
18-20, 1835; 2te Abtheil. 201, 1839 (provisional name); Roger, Bericht 
Naturwiss. Ver. Schwaben u. Neuburg, X XIX, 90, 1887. 
Tapiroporeus JXGER, l. c. 206, 18539. 
Type (species not mentioned) from the ‘Bohnerzgruben’ of Salmendingen, 
Hohenzollern, Germany. 
Extinct. Based on a molar tooth. 
Tapiroporcus: Tapirus; Lat., porcus, pig. 
Tapirotherium BLAINvILLE, 1817. Ungulata, Perissodactyla, Lophiodontidee. 
Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., IX, 329-330, 1817; Gervais, Comptes Rendus, XXVIII, 
No. 17, p. 547, Apr., 1849. 
**Je crois devoir placer sous ce nom les différentes espéces de paleeotherium, qui 
ont une disposition et une forme de dents pour ainsi dire intermédiaire aux 
deux genres tapir et paleeotherium.’’ (BLAINVILLE. ) 
Tapirotherium: Tapirus; 0nptov, wild beast—i. e., an extinct tapir-like beast. 
Tapirotherium Larrer, 1851. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suid:e. 
Notice sur la Colline de Sansan, 31-32, 1851. 
Type: Tapirotherium blainvilleanum Lartet. Based on specimens from Simorre 
and Villefranche, Dépt. du Gers; and Castelnau-Magnoac, Dépt. des Hautes- 
Pyrénées, southwestern France. 
Name preoccupied by Tapirotherium Blainville, 1817, a genus of Lophiodontid:ze. 
Replaced by Lophiocherus (Lartet MS.) Bayle, 1855. 
Extinct. 

* Erroneously credited to Ameghino by C. O. WArERHOUSE, Index Zool., p. 306, 1902. 
