Bibliography Record

 
 
Blainville, Henri Marie Ducrotay de (detail)
   
1844
Ostéographie ou description iconographique comparée du squelette et du système dentaire des mammifères récent et fossiles pour servir de base à la zoologie et à la geologie. [Livr. 15] Des lamantins (Buffon), (Manatus, Scopoli), ou gravigrades aquatiques.
Paris, Arthus Bertrand (4 vols. + 4 vol. atlas): Vol. 3, Livr. 15: 1-140. 11 pls. (in folio atlas).
–A major contribution to knowledge of the osteology of Recent and fossil sirs., and likewise valuable for its detailed analysis of previous work on sirs. and their relationships. Blainville concluded decisively and correctly that sirs. are not cetaceans, but rather "Gravigrades aquatiques", related to the elephants. He also, however, cluttered nomenclature with many new combinations created in the course of lumping all known sirs. into the single genus Manatus.

Related Index Records (14)

Cheirotherium brocchii de Blainville, 1844
(= Metaxytherium subapenninum)
  * 1844 Blainville, H.M.D. de (name introduced; lapsus for C. subapenninum)

Manatus brocchii (de Blainville, 1844) de Blainville, 1844
(= Metaxytherium subapenninum)
  * 1844 Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.comb.)

Manatus christolii (Fitzinger, 1842) de Blainville, 1844
(= Halitherium christolii)
  * 1844 Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.comb.)

Manatus cuvieri (de Christol, 1832) de Blainville, 1844
(= Metaxytherium medium, in part; Metaxytherium serresii, in part)
  * 1844 Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.comb.)

Manatus dubius (Cuvier, 1824) de Blainville, 1844
(= Halitherium schinzii)
  * 1844 Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.comb.)

Manatus dugung (Erxleben, 1777) de Blainville, 1844
(= Dugong dugon)
  * 1844 Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.comb.)

Manatus guettardi de Blainville, 1844
(= Halitherium schinzii)
  * 1844 Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.sp.)

Manatus indicus (Boddaert, 1785) Daudin, 1802
(= Dugong dugon)
  1844 Blainville, H.M.D. de

Manatus maeoticus Eichwald, 1850
(Pinnipedia?)
  v 1844 Blainville, H.M.D. de

Manatus schinzii (Kaup, 1838) de Blainville, 1844
(= Halitherium schinzii)
  * 1844 Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.comb.)

Manatus tabernaculi (Rüppell, 1834) de Blainville, 1844
(= Dugong dugon)
  * 1844 Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.comb.)

Metaxytherium beaumonti de Christol in de Blainville, 1844
(nomen dubium)
  * 1844 Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.sp.)

Metaxytherium cordieri de Christol in de Blainville, 1844
(= Metaxytherium medium)
  * 1844 Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.sp.)

Metaxytherium cuvierii (de Christol, 1832) de Christol in de Blainville, 1844
(= Metaxytherium medium)
  * 1844 Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.sp.)


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