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"Hershkovitz, Philip"

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Hershkovitz, Philip (detail)
   
1959
Nomenclature and taxonomy of the Neotropical mammals described by Olfers, 1818.
Jour. Mamm. 40(3): 337-353. Aug. 20, 1959.
–P. 342: {"M[anatus]. fluviatilis (p. 235) = Trichechus manatus manatus Linnaeus, 1758 (Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1: 34). - Olfers' primary basis for the name is the Guianan manati of Pennant (1793, Hist. Quadr. 2: 297). His other synonyms, Tr[ichechus]. Clusii Shaw and Tr[ichechus]. Amazonius Shaw (1800, Gen. Zool., 1, [1]: 246) are freshwater representatives of the common Antillean manatee."}

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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