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Home, Everard (detail)
   
1821b
On the peculiarities that distinguish the manatee of the West Indies from the dugong of the East Indian seas.
Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. London 111(2)(Art. 26): 390-391. Pls. 26-29. Read July 12, 1821.
–German ?transl.: Froriep's Notizen 2: 260-261, June 1822 (Allen 614). Comments on the anatomy of the manatee in comparison with the dugong; the plates show a female Jamaican manatee, its skeleton, stomach, and cecum. The fig. of the entire animal is reproduced by Durand (1983: 182-183), who calls it "la primera figura exacta" of a manatee.

Related Index Records (6)

Digestive System
(SEE ALSO: Excretion and Defecation; Food; Mastication; Parasites; Parasitology; Sense Organs)
  x 1821b Home, E. (Trichechus comp. w/ DD; 391, pls. 28-29.)

Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
  x v 1821b Home, E. (comp. w/ Trichechus; 390-391.)

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 1821b Home, E. (DD; "fuci" in stomach; 391.)

Jamaica
  x 1821b Home, E. (TMM; m390.)

Skeleton
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
  x 1821b Home, E. (TMM; Jamaica; 390-391, pl. 27.)

Trichechus manatus manatus Linnaeus, 1758, Hatt, 1934
  x v 1821b Home, E. (Jamaica; comp. w/ DD; 390-391, pls. 26-29.)


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