Bibliography Record

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Gill, Theodore Nicholas (detail)
   
1873
On the affinities of the sirenians.
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 25(2): 262-273.
–Concludes that the Cetacea and Sirenia are closer to each other than either is to any other order, and that they share a common aquatic ancestor. Also provides a genealogical tree of the sir. families.

Related Index Records (13)

Halicore Illiger, 1811
(= Dugong)
  x 1873 Gill, T. (phylogeny; 272.)

Halicoridae Gray, 1825
(family; = Dugongidae)
  x 1873 Gill, T. (phylogeny; 272-273.)

Halicoroidea Gill, 1872
(superfamily; = Dugongidae)
  x 1873 Gill, T. (phylogeny; 272-273.)

Halitheriidae Gill, 1872
(family; = Halitheriinae)
  x 1873 Gill, T. (phylogeny; 273.)

Halitherium Kaup, 1838
  x 1873 Gill, T. (affinities; 271-272.)

Manatidae Gray, 1821
(family; = Trichechidae)
  x 1873 Gill, T. (phylogeny; 272.)

Manatus Brünnich, 1771
(= Trichechus)
  x 1873 Gill, T. (phylogeny; 269, 272.)

Phylogeny and Affinities of the Sirenia and/or Desmostylia
(SEE ALSO under species)
  x * 1873 Gill, T. (sirs. considered close to Cetacea; 262-273.)

Rytina Illiger, 1811
(= Hydrodamalis. Spelled Rhytina by Berthold, 1827, and most later authors; this is an unjustified emendation.)
  x 1873 Gill, T. ("Rhytina"; phylogeny; m272.)

Rytinidae Girard, 1852
(family; = Hydrodamalinae)
  x 1873 Gill, T. (phylogeny; 273.)

Trichechidae Gill, 1872 (1821)
(family)
  x 1873 Gill, T. (phylogeny; 272-273.)

Trichechoidea Gill, 1872
(superfamily; = Trichechidae)
  x 1873 Gill, T. (phylogeny; 273.)

Trichechus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 1873 Gill, T. (phylogeny; 272.)


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