1918] Taylor: Revision of the Rodent Genus Aplodontia 453 
Arctomys (part), Douglas (1914), pp. 59, 156. 
Apluodontia Richardson (1837), p. 150. 
Aplodontie Gervais (1854), p. 364. 
Haploodon and Hapludon Brandt (1855), p. 150, footnote. 
Haploodon, Haploudon, Haploddus, Haplodus, Haploudus Coues (1877b), 
p- 556. 
Haplodonta Cope (1883), p. 55. 
Hapludus, Aploudontia, Haploudontia Coues (1890), p. 2712. 
Haplodontia Elliot (1899), pp. 241-276. 
Aploodontia, Aplodon, Aploodon, Aploudon, Apludon, Aplodus, Aploodus, 
Aploudus, Apludus, Haploodontia, Hapludontia Palmer (1904), p. 25. 
There has been no agreement as to a vernacular name for aplo- 
dontia. Among names applied to the animal are found the following: 
Mountain beaver, mountain boomer, gehalis, and farmer; giant mole, 
mammoth mole, ground bear, marmot, ground hog, woodchuck, 
gopher, badger, muskrat, blue muskrat, high ground muskrat, and 
(Indian names) sewelel, shewelel, sewewel, or sewellel, showhurll, 
showhurtl, showtl, showt’l, show’tl, shote, squallah, swak-la, o-gwal-lal, 
and ou-ka-la. I am indebted to Dr. C. Hart Merriam for the following 
list of names given aplodontia by certain tribes of Californian Indians: 
NAME TRIBE LocaLiry 
Ne-ta-te Tolowa or Huss Crescent City 
Mah-pe-neetch Karok Happy Camp to Weitzpek 
Tabt-ka-wer-itl Soo-lah-te-luk Humboldt Bay 
Waw-kaw-see Mo-des-se Pit River 
Yah-sah Nis-se-nan Colfax and Placerville to Yuba 
Wes-skap* Yurok Lower Klamath; mouth of river 
to Weitzpek 
4. List of SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES WitH TyPE LOCALITIES 
’ 
Aplodontia rufa rufa (Rafinesque). ‘‘ Neighborhood of the Columbia River”’; 
specimens from Marmot, Clackamas County, Oregon, regarded as typical. 
(p. 454) 
Aplodontia rufa olympica Merriam, C. H. Quiniault Lake, Chehalis County, 
Washington. 
(p. 460) 
Aplodontia rufa columbiana Taylor. Roab’s Ranch, near Hope, British 
Columbia. 
(p. 463) 
Aplodontia rufa rainieri Merriam, C. H. Paradise Creek, south side of 
Mount Rainier, Washington. 
(p. 465) 
Aplodontia rufa pacifica Merriam, C. H. Newport, mouth of Yaquina Bay, 
Lincoln County, Oregon. 
(p. 467) 
Aplodontia rufa humboldtiana Taylor. Carlotta, Humboldt County, Cali- 
fornia. 
(p. 470) 
