Bibliography Record

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Flower, William Henry; Lydekker, Richard (detail)
   
1891
An introduction to the study of mammals, living and extinct.
London, Adam & Charles Black: xvi + 763. 357 figs.
–General survey of the habits and anatomy of Recent and fossil sirs. (212-225).

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Anatomy
(SEE ALSO: Brain and Nervous System; Circulatory System; Digestive System; Embryology; Endocrinology; Growth Rates; Histology; Myology; Pathology; Respiratory System; Skeleton; Urogenital System; and under species)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (gen. acc.; 212-214.)

Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (Trichechus; Brighton; m216, 218.)

Crassitherium Van Beneden, 1871
(= Halitherium, in part; ?Reptilia, in part)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (m223.)

Desmostylus Marsh, 1888
  x D 1891 Flower & Lydekker ("Desmotylus"; in Halicoridae; m223.)

Dioplotherium Cope, 1883
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (considered incertae sedis; 223.)

Economic Uses
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (DD; Australia; oil; 221.)

Eotherium aegyptiacum Owen, 1875
(= Eotheroides aegyptiacum)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker ("E. egyptiacum"; morphology; 224.)

Felsinotherium Capellini, 1872
(= Metaxytherium)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (syn. of Halitherium; 223.)

Food
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive; Captivity, Sirenians in; Digestive System; Food Plants; Weed Control) (NOTE: Plants reported as part of the captive but not the natural diet of sirs. will not necessarily be found under Food Plants. Papers referring to them are, however, indexed here.)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (Trichechus; in capt., Brighton; 218.)

Halicore Illiger, 1811
(= Dugong)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (anatomy, 213-214, 220-221; m223.)

Halicore australis (Retzius, 1794) Owen, 1847
(= Dugong dugon)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (econ. use; 221.)

Halicore dugong (Gmelin, 1788) Illiger, 1811
(= Dugong dugon)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (m221.)

Halicore tabernaculi Rüppell, 1834
(= Dugong dugon)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (m221.)

Halicoridae Gray, 1825
(family; = Dugongidae)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (in classification, m220; m223.)

Halitheriidae Gill, 1872
(family; = Halitheriinae)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (m222.)

Halitherium Kaup, 1838
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (anatomy; 213, 222-224.)

Halitherium fossile (Holl, 1829) Gervais, 1847
(= Metaxytherium medium)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (teeth illustrated; 223.)

Manatidae Gray, 1821
(family; = Trichechidae)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (in classification; m215.)

Manatus Brünnich, 1771
(= Trichechus)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (anatomy; 213, 215-220, 224.)

Manatus americanus (Link, 1795) Illiger, 1815
(= Trichechus manatus; also used by many authors for T. inunguis)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (anatomy; 216, 219-220.)

Manatus australis Retzius, 1794
(= Trichechus manatus, in part; Trichechus senegalensis, in part; also used by many authors for T. inunguis)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (syn. of M. americanus; m220.)

Manatus inunguis Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883
(= Trichechus inunguis)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (m220.)

Manatus latirostris Harlan, 1824
(= Trichechus manatus)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (syn. of M. americanus; m220.)

Manatus senegalensis Desmarest, 1817
(homonym of Trichechus senegalensis Link, 1795)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (anatomy; 217, 220.)

Miosiren Dollo, 1889
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (teeth; 223.)

Pachyacanthus Brandt, 1873
(Cetacea)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (m224.)

Prohalicore Flot, 1887
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (m223.)

Prorastomidae Cope, 1889
(family)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker ("Prorastomatidae", unjustified emendation; m224.)

Prorastomus sirenoides Owen, 1855
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (anatomy; 224.)

Rytina Illiger, 1811
(= Hydrodamalis. Spelled Rhytina by Berthold, 1827, and most later authors; this is an unjustified emendation.)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (anatomy; 213, 221-222.)

Rytina stelleri (Retzius, 1794) Desmarest, 1819
(= Hydrodamalis gigas)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker ("Rhytina"; m214, 221-222.)

Rytiodus Lartet, 1866
(Spelled Rhytiodus by Delfortrie, 1872, and many later authors; this is an unjustified emendation.)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (anatomy; 223-224.)

Sound Production
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (Trichechus; in capt.; no sounds produced; 219.)

Trachytherium Gervais, 1849
(= Halitherium)
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (?syn. of Rytiodus; m224.)

Trichechus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 1891 Flower & Lydekker (synonymy; m215.)

Prorastomatidae Flower & Lydekker, 1891
(family; = Prorastomidae)
  x * 1891 Flower & Lydekker (unjustified emendation of Prorastomidae; 224.)


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