666 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Taxus Grorrroy & Cvvixn, 1795. Fer, Mustelide. 
“Mag. Eneyelopédique II, No. 6, p. 187, 1795” (fide Gervais, Dict. Pittoresque 
Hist. Hat., IV, pt. 2, p. 617, 1836); Cuvier [Tabl. Élém. Hist. Nat. Anim., 
112, 1798—deseription under ‘Blaireaux’]; Lecons Anat. Comp., I, tabl. 1 
Class. Mamm., 1800 (names only—‘ Blaireaux, Taxus’); TrEDEMANN, Zoologie, 
pp. xiv, 375-378, 1808. | 
Type: ‘Le Blaireau’ ( Ursus meles Schreber), from Europe. In 1798 Cuvier used 
Blaireaux as a subgroup of Ursus, including 3 species: Ursus meles Linnzeus, 
and U. gulo Linn:eus, from Europe; and U. mellivorus G. Cuvier, from Africa. 
Name antedated by Meles Brisson, 1762. 
Taxus: New Lat., badger. 
Taxymys Mansu, 1872. Glires, Ischyromyide. 
Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 3d ser., IV, 219-220, Sept., 1872 (sep. issued Aug. 17). 
Tachymys OSBORN, Scott & Spek n Cont. Mus. Geol. & Archzol., Princeton, No. 1, 
p. 138, Sept. 1, 1878. 
Toxymys ZyrrEt, Handbuch Palaeont., IV, 2te Lief., 522, 1893. 
Type: Tuxymys lucaris Marsh, from the Eocene in the vicinity of Henry Fork of 
Green River, Wyoming. 
Extinet. Based on 'a fragment of an upper jaw, with the first two molars in 
position.’ 
Taxymys: TAXVS, swift; ses, mouse. 
Tayassu G. FriscuEn, 1814. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Tayassuidee. 
Zoognosia, III, 284-289, 1814; PaArwEm, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XI, 174, June 9, 
1897 (name revived); MirnuER & REuw, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., XXX, 
12-13, Dee., 1901 (type given as 7. pecari = Sus albirostris Illiger; but see 
Olidosus) . 
Tajassus RArINESQUE, Analyse de la Nature, 56, 1815. 
Species: Tayassu pecari Fischer, and T. patira Fischer, from tropical America. 
T. pecari (not Link, 1795) is characterized by ‘maxilla inferiore alba,’ and is 
the white-lipped peccary of later authors; T. patira, by ‘fascia humerali alba,’ 
and is the collared peceary (= Sus tajacu Linn:eus, 5. patira Sonnini). 
Tayassu, tajassou, tajacu, or tajoussou, native name of the peecary in Brazil. 
(Burro, Hist. Nat., X, 21, 1763.) 
Tayra OKEN, 1816. Fer», Mustelidee. 
LONE Naturgesch., 3ter Theil, Zool., 2te Abth., pp. xr, 1001, 1816; ALLEN, 
Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., XVI, 377, Oct. 11, 1902 (name revived, 
type fixed.) 
Species: Mustela barbara Linnzeus (type), from Brazil; M. lanata Goldfuss, from 
Guiana; and M. canadensis Schreber, from Canada. (See Galera Browne, 1789.) 
Tayra: Native name. i 
Teanopus Merriam, 1903. Glires, Murid:e, Neotominee. 
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVI, 81, May 29, 1903. 
Type: Teanopus phenax Merriam, from Camoa, Rio Mayo, Sonora, Mexico. 
Teanopus: Teono-(ma); z0vs, foot—i. e., suggesting the foot of Teonoma. 
Tehuelia Rorn, 1901. Ungulata, Ancylopoda, Homalodontotheriid:e. 
Revista Mus. La Plata, X, 253-254, Oct., 1901 (sep. pp. 5-6). 
Type: Tehuelia regia Roth, from the ences ‘Cretaceous’ of Lago Musters, Terri- 
tory of Chubut, Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Tehuelia: Tehuelche, name of a tribe of Indians, and also of a geological formation 
in Patagonia. 
Telacodon Marsn, 1892. Marsupialia, Cimolestide. 
Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 3d ser., XLIII, 258, pls. ix figs. 2-4, xr figs. 1, 8, 
Mar., 1892. 
