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1836 |
De l'histoire naturelle des cétaceés, ou recueil et examen des faits dont se compose l'histoire naturelle de ces animaux.
Paris, Libraire Encyclopédique de Roret: lii + 416. 22 pls.
–Allen 887. Published Dec. 1835, fide Sherborn. Sirs., 1-71, 375-377, pls. 4-6. Includes a translation of G.W. Steller's (1751) memoir on Rytina, 41-71, 376(?), pl. 7. Durand (1983: 184, 199-200) reproduces a fig. of a manatee and one of a dugong from this work.
Here F. Cuvier, in line with Blainville (1816) but in contradiction to his late brother Georges Cuvier, removed the sirenians from the true Cetacea and placed them with pachyderms.
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