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"Billberg, Gust. Joh."

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 Billberg, Gust. Joh. (detail)
   
1827
Synopsis faunae Scandinaviae. Tom. I. Pars I. Mammalia....
Holmiae [= Stockholm], Off. Typogr. Ordinum Equestrium: viii + 55 + xv + [iii]. 3 tabs.
–Lists in classification under "Tribus Anthropocephala", "Natio Manatides" [both = Sirenia]: Manatus, Halicore, and Haligyna [n.gen.] borealis [= Hydrodamalis gigas], the latter based on Gmelin's Trichechus manatus borealis (tabs. A & B, 33).
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 Billberg, Gust. Joh. (detail)
   
1828
Synopsis faunae Scandinaviae. Tom. I. Pars I. Mammalia....
Holmiae [= Stockholm], Off. Typogr. Caroli Deleem: xii + 56 + x. 3 tabs.
–Material almost identical to that in 1827 ed., but gives the Greek etymology of the new name Haligyna and lists Rytina as a possible synonym of it (tabs. A & B, 33-34).
Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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