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Tatusia—Continued. 
Tatusia: French tatusie, from tatu (French tatou, Span. tato, Port. tatu), Indian 
name of the armadillo in Paraguay and other parts of South America. 
Taumastognathus FirLunor, 1890. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Anthracotheriidee. 
Bull. Soc. Philomathique, Paris, 8° sér., II, No. 2, pp. 34-38, 1 fig. in text, 
1890 ( Taumastognatus, p. 38, misprint for Tawmastognathus). 
Thaumatognathus LYDEKKER, Zool. Record for 1890, X XVII, Mamm., p. 47, 1891. 
Type: Taumastognathus quercyi Filhol, from the Phosphorites of Quercy, France. 
Extinct. Based on ‘une portion de mandibule gauche, portant la canine, les 
prémolaires et les deux premieres molaires.’ 
Thaumastognathus: 6cvjaGrós, wonderful, extraordinary; vv dos, jaw. 
Taurotragus (subg. of Antilope) WAaNER, 1855. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidze. 
Suppl. Schreber’s Sáugethiere, V, 438-439, 1855; HkvaLnIN, Nova Acta. Ciws. 
Leop.-Carol. Acad., X XX, 19, pl. 1, 1863 (raised to generic rank); ScrATER & 
Tuomas, Book of Antelopes, IV, 193-222, pls. xcvrir-c, text figs. 116-121, 1900 
(type fixed). 
Species: Antilope oreas Pallas, 1777 (=A. oryx Pallas, 1766, type), from South 
Africa; and Boselaphus derbianus Gray, from Senegambia. 
Taurotragus: Tavdpos, bull; recy os, goat, antelope—in allusion to its large size, 
heavily built, bovine form, and the presence of horns in both sexes. 
Taurus Srorr, 1780. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovide. 
Prodromus Methodi Mamm., 41, Tab. c, 1780; RarrNEsQUE, ‘‘Précis Découy. 
Somiol. 1814;’’ Analyse de la Nature, 56, 1815; Atlantic Journ., No. 3, p. 112, 
1832; ReicHeENBACH, Deutschlands Fauna, I, Sáugthiere, p. ix, 1837. 
Storr mentions no type, but simply renames Bos Linnzeus, 1758 (see Grin, Bull. 
Philos. Soc. Wash., II, App., p. viii, 1875-1880). Rafinesque says: *'I have 
substituted the name of Taurus (Bull) to the absurd generic name of Bos, (Ox) 
ever since 1814, (see Princ. Somiol.) as I never could believe it right to call 
animals by neutral names.’’* (Atlantic Journal, 112.) 
Taurus: tavpos, bull. 

Taxidea (subgenus of Meles) WATERHOUSE, 1839. Fer, Mustelide. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, for 1838, No. rxxri, 153-154, May, 1839; Trans. Zool. 
Soc. London, II, 547, 1841; Lesson, Nouv. Tableau Régne Animal, Mamm., 
79, 1842; Gray, List. Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pp. xxi, 70, 1843 (raised to 
generic rank); Minter & Renn, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., XXX, 217-218, 
Dec. 27, 1901 (name erroneously referred to Storr, 1780, and type given as 
Ursus taxus). 
Type: Meles labradoria (Gmelin), from North America. 
Taxidea: Taxus; ti00c, form—from its general resemblance to the common 
badger of Europe ( Meles taxus). 
Taxodon LanrrEr, 1851. Fer», Mustelid:e. 
Notice sur la Colline de Sansan, 15-16, 1851. 
Type: Zaxodon sansaniensis Lartet, from Sansan, Dépt. du Gers, France. 
Extinct. 
Taxodon: Taxus; 653@v=660vs, tooth. 
Taxotherium Buiainy iir, 1841. Creodonta, H y:enodontidze. 
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Ostéog. Mamm. Hécents et Foss., II, fase. rx (Carnassiers: Subursus), 55-72, 
111-112; Atlas, II, Subursus, pl. xir, 1841. 
Type: Taxotherium parisiense Blainville (=Nasua parisiense G. Guvier), from the 
Eocene gypsum beds of Paris, France. 
Extinet. 
Taxotherium: Taxus; 01píov, wild beast—i. e., an extinct badger-like beast. 


*See footnote under Aper, p. 111. 
