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"Fabricius, Otho"

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 Fabricius, Otho (detail)
   
1780
Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens Animalia Groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificum, triviale, vernaculumque; synonyma auctorum plurium, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationum, mores, usum, capturamque singuli, prout detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes....
Hafniae et Lipsiae [= Copenhagen & Leipzig], Impensis Ioanis Gottlob Rothe: xvi + 452. 1 pl.
–Allen 356. Reports a partial cranium of "Trichechus manatus" from Greenland (6). The natives applied the name Auvekaejak to both this animal and "Phoca ursina"; Fabricius took it to be identical with the species described by Steller. It may, however, actually have been T. manatus; see Domning (1978b: 138; Hoch, 2024).
  Hinrich Rink, 1857, Groenland geographisk og statistisk beskrevet, vol. 2, has an appendix by Prof. J. Reinhardt ["List of Greenland's Mammals, Birds and Fishes"], which contains on pp. 6-8 a lengthy footnote concerning Fabricius' Auvekaejak or supposed manatee skull. Reinhardt dismisses the idea that it could be a seacow or even a mammal. He notes that Fabricius found it "in Sildefjorden [= the Herring Fiord] north of Friderichshaabs Coloni [= Frederikshaab /Paamiut] in a Bjergkl?ft [= mountain ravine]". Fabricius did not preserve the skull, but mentioned it again in his posthumous zoological manuscripts entitled Zoologiske Samlinger [=Zoological Collections], written in Copenhagen in the period 1808-1814, and kept in the Royal Library. There he says about the Auvekaejak: "the skull, which I found, was very shabby and looked much like that of a walrus (No. 82), except for the teeth which were many, long, narrow, placed forwards in a cluster [Klynge, which may be Reinhardt's word] at each side." (Summary and translation by Ella Hoch.) See copy of Rink at nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.FIG:006445420.
  Danish translation with annotations and comments: Otto Helms, 1929: Pattedyr og Fugle. (Oversat og forsynet med indledning og kommentarer): Det Groenlandske Selskabs Skrifter, VI. Copenhagen, 168 pp.
 
 
 Fabricius, Otho (detail)
   
1808-(?)1815.
Zoologiske Samlinger eller Dyrbeskrivelser, tid efter anden forfattede efter egen Betragtning ved Otho Fabricius, fra Aar 1768 og her bragte i Samling fra Aar 1808 [Zoological collections or animal descriptions, from time to time written according to personal reflections by Otho Fabricius, from the year 1768 and here collected from the year 1808]. Det Kgl. Bibliotek, the Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen: "NKS 322 D 4o: Otto Fabricius, Zoologiske Samlinger, 2". Note number 286, Soekoen (den nordlige), Trichechus Manatus (borealis). In: Fabricius O. 1808-(?)1815. http://www5.kb.dk/permalink/2006/manus/778/dan
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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