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"Pennant, Thomas"

 
 
 Pennant, Thomas (detail)
   
1771
Synopsis of quadrupeds.
Chester, printed by J. Monk: xxv + 382. 32 pls.
–Allen 319. "Indian walrus" (= dugong), 338; manati, 351-358. Allen says, regarding the account of the "manati": "A general account of the Sirenians as then known, which were thought to constitute a single species. Pennant's references are here, however, mainly to Steller's Sea-Cow and the American Manatee."
 
 
 Pennant, Thomas (detail)
   
1781
History of quadrupeds.
London, B. White (2 vols.): Vol. 1: xxiv + 284; Vol. 2: 285-566.
–Allen 367. Ed. 3, 1793. Sirs., 536-545: whale-tailed manati, 536-539; round-tailed manati, 540-544; sea ape, 544-545. Allen says: "The first is primarily Steller's Sea Cow; the second includes both the American and African Manatees; the last is a ... myth." See also J. M. Bechstein (1800). The fig. of an African manatee from the 1793 ed. is reproduced by Durand (1983: 180-181).
  The name "Manati Clusii" (= Trichechus manatus) was introduced in the 3rd ed., vol. 2, p. 298, based on Clusius's figure.
 
 
 Pennant, Thomas (detail)
   
1784-85
Arctic zoology.
London, printed by H. Hughs (2 vols.). Frontisp. 23 pls.
–Repr.: Arno Press, 1975. Reports a manatee stranding in the British Isles before 1785?
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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