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Senter, Phil; Snow, Vernetta B. (detail)
   
2013
Solution to a 300-year-old zoological mystery: the case of Thomas Bartholin's merman.
Archives of Natural History 40(2): 257-262. 11 figs.
–Identifies a flipper skeleton and rib from Brazil described by Bartholin (1654) as Trichechus sp. [It was actually T. manatus.]

Related Index Records (5)

Brazil
  x 2013 Senter & Snow (forelimb skeleton of Bartholin's (1654) "merman" identified as Trichechus sp.; 257-262.)

Mermaid Legend
(SEE ALSO: Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Ri)
  x 2013 Senter & Snow (forelimb skeleton of Bartholin's (1654) "merman" identified as Trichechus sp.; Brazil; 257-262.)

Skeleton
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
  x 2013 Senter & Snow (forelimb skeleton of Bartholin's (1654) "merman" identified as Trichechus sp.; Brazil; 257-262.)

Trichechus inunguis (Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Thomas and Lydekker, 1897
  x 2013 Senter & Snow (comp. w/ forelimb skeleton of Bartholin's (1654) "merman"; Brazil; 257-262.)

Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 2013 Senter & Snow (comp. w/ forelimb skeleton of Bartholin's (1654) "merman"; Brazil; 257-262.)


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