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NAMES OF SOME SOUTH AMERICAN MAMMALS 
By Wilfred H. Osgood 
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Among required nomenclatural changes revealed in the preparation 
of a list of the technical names of South American mammals are the 
following to which it seems desirable that attention be called as early 
as possible. 
Euphractus sexcinctus fiavimanus Desmarest 
Tatou poyou ou Tatou a main jaune Azara, Quad. Paraguay, II, p. 142, 1801. 
Loricatus fiavimanus Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., xxi, p. 433, 1803 
(common name); ibid, xxiv. Tab. Meth. Mamm., p. 28, 1804. 
Dasypus fiavipes Fischer, Zoognosia, III, pp. 122-124, 1814. 
Dasypus gilvipes Illiger, Abhandl. K. Akad. Wiss., Berlin (1811), p. 108, 
1815-nomen nudum; Lichtenstein, Abhandl. K. Akad. Wiss., Berlin (1814- 
15), p. 215, 1818. 
Dasypus sexcinctus gilvipes Thomas, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., (7), xx, p. 165, 
1907. 
Euphractus sexcinctus gilvipes Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxxv, p. 
564, August 9, 1916. 
The name gilvipes, now in use for the Paraguayan form of the six- 
banded armadillo, is antedated by two others, fiavipes Fischer, 1814, 
and fiavimanus Desmarest, 1804. The proper name for this form, 
therefore, is Euphractus sexcinctus fiavimanus Desmarest. 
Tolypeutes matacus Desmarest 
Tatou huitieme, ou Tatou mataco Azara, Quad. Paraguay, II, p. 197, 1801. 
Loricatus matacus Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., xxiv. Tab. Meth. 
Mamm., p. 28, 1804. 
Tolypeutes conurus Geofproy, Rev. ZooL, Paris, p. 137, April 1847; Comptes 
Rendus, xxiv, p. 575, January-June, 1847. 
If the mataco of Azara is distinct from the Linnaean species {tri- 
cinctus), the name conurus should be replaced by matacus of Desmarest 
which has many years priority. 
Zaedyus pichiy Desmarest 
Tatou septieme, ou Tatou pichiy Azara, Quad. Paraguay, II, p. 192, 1801. 
Loricatus pichiy Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., xxiv. Tab. Meth. 
* Mamm., p. 28, 1804. 
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