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"Shaw, Norton"

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 Shaw, Norton (detail)
   
1857
Description of the ajuh, a kind of whale, found by Dr. Vogel in the River Benué (Central Africa) in September 1855. Translated and communicated by Dr. Shaw.
Rept. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 26th Meeting (1856): 98-99.
–French transl.: L'Institut 25(1208): 61-62, Feb. 25, 1857. A description of the external appearance and habits of the West African manatee, by Vogel. Followed by a note (R. Owen, 1857b; q.v.) which compares the "ajuh" to other sirs. and proposes for it the name Manatus Vogelii.
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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