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"Shaw, George"

 
 
 Shaw, George (detail)
   
1800
General zoology or systematic natural history.... Vol. I. Part 1. Mammalia.
London, G. Kearsley: xiii + 248. 70 pls.
–Allen 461 (the second of two items erroneously given this number). The whole work comprises 14 vols, 1800-26. Trichechus (including the Sirenia + the walrus), 233-248; T. Dugong, 239; T. Borealis (mainly = Rhytina borealis), 240-244; T. Australis, 244-245, pl. 69; T. Manatus (including as "varieties" T. Clusii from the West Indies and T. Amazonius from South America), 245-248; and T.? Hydropithechus, Steller's "sea-ape". Allen says "The history of the Sirenia ... is ... purely a compilation."
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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