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Home, Everard (detail)
   
1821a
An account of the skeletons of the dugong, two-horned rhinoceros, and tapir of Sumatra, sent to England by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Governor of Bencoolen.
Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. London 111(2)(Art. 18): 268-275. Pls. 20-24. Read Mar. 22, 1821.
–Allen 602. Notes that the arrangement of the lungs and skeleton of the dugong result in its passively maintaining a horizontal posture (268-270); illustrates the skeleton of a female (pl. 20).

Related Index Records (4)

Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
  x v 1821a Home, E. (Sumatra; skeleton; 268-270, pl. 20.)

East Indies
(SEE ALSO: Asia; Australia; Indian Ocean; Pacific Ocean; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Philippine Islands)
  x 1821a Home, E. (DD; Sumatra; m268.)

Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
  x 1821a Home, E. (DD; hydrostasis; 269-270.)

Skeleton
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
  x 1821a Home, E. (DD; Sumatra; 268-270, pl. 20.)


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