Bibliography Record

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Domning, Daryl Paul (detail)
   
2000
The readaptation of Eocene sirenians to life in water. In: J.-M. Mazin, V. de Buffrénil, & P. Vignaud (eds.), Secondary adaptation of tetrapods to life in water.
Historical Biology (Special Issue) 14(1-2): 115-119. 1 fig.
–Describes in general terms the evolution of hydrostatic and hydrodynamic locomotor and diving adaptations in sirs., tracing the changes in gross body form exhibited by the four families and comparing them with convergent changes seen in contemporary cetaceans.

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Dugong Lacépède, 1799
  x 2000 Domning, D.P. (locomotor & diving adaptations; 117-118.)

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  x 2000 Domning, D.P. (m117.)

Locomotion
(SEE ALSO: Respiration and Diving)
  x 2000 Domning, D.P. (Eoc. sirs.; locomotor & diving adaptations; 115-119.)

Pezosiren portelli Domning, 2001
  x v 2000 Domning, D.P. (locomotor & diving adaptations; 115-116.)

Prorastomus Owen, 1855
  x 2000 Domning, D.P. (m118.)

Protosiren Abel, 1907
  x 2000 Domning, D.P. (locomotor & diving adaptations; 116-118.)

Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
  x 2000 Domning, D.P. (Eoc. sirs.; locomotor & diving adaptations; 115-119.)

Trichechus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 2000 Domning, D.P. (locomotor & diving adaptations; 116-118.)


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