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"Illiger, Carl (Johan"

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 Illiger, Carl (Johann Karl Wilhelm) (detail)
   
1811
Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium additis terminis zoographicus utriusque classis, eorumque versione Germanica.
Berlin, sumptibus C. Salfeld: xviii + 302.
–Allen 523. Introduces the name Sirenia, applying it to a family within the "Ordo Natantia", and recognizes and diagnoses three monospecific genera: Manatus, Halicore (new name), and Rytina (new name) (140-141). These are based on, respectively, the nominal species Trichechus Manatus australis, T. Dugong, and T. Manatus borealis, but the implied new combinations are not printed. Halicore is preferred to the name Dugong because the latter is not of Greek or Latin origin (xvii). Rytina is an incorrect transliteration of the Greek but is nonetheless the "correct original spelling" of the generic name.
 
 
 Illiger, Carl (Johann Karl Wilhelm) (detail)
   
1815
Ueberblick der Säugthiere nach ihrer Vertheilung über die Welttheile.
Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1804-1811: 39-159. 5 tabs. Read Feb. 28, 1811.
–Allen 544. Sirs., 53, 61, 64, 68, 70, 75, 79, 87, 91, 99, 103, 105, 110, 122; tabs. 1-5. The Family Sirenia is included with the Family Cete in the Order Natantia. Eight species are recognized: Manatus australis, M. Americanus, M. fluviatilis, M. sphaerurus, M.? Simia, Rytina borealis, R. cetacea, and Halicore cetacea. "M. australis" is placed in the Indian Ocean and Australia together with "H. cetacea", based on the testimony of Dampier. M. Americanus and M. fluviatilis are both attributed to South America; one of them (it is not specified which) is said to be found in large rivers and estuaries. M. sphaerurus is Adanson's Senegalese manatee. "M.? Simia" is Steller's "sea-ape". "R. borealis" and "R. cetacea" are used interchangeably. The name Trichechus appears in Tab. 5, together with Manatus, Halicore, and Rytina.
  Allen pungently comments of this work that "The lists are, so far at least as the Cete and Sirenia are concerned, worthless conglomerations, which, as in the case of other groups treated in the same connection, appear to contain some names coined for the occasion, without descriptions or textual references. The paper may be safely ignored so far as Cetology is concerned." See also I. von Olfers (1818).
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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