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Prater, S. H. (detail)
   
1928
The dugong or sea cow (Halicore dugong).
Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 33(1): 84-99. 4 pls. Sept. 30, 1928.
–Fairly detailed gen. acc., mostly assembled from other authors, of dugongs and other sirs.

Related Index Records (31)

Behavior, Epimeletic
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (DD; Red Sea; 84.)

Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
  x * 1928 Prater, S.H. (DD; browsing, 89-90; chewing, 92.)

Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (DD; Red Sea; 84.)

Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (DD; Red Sea; 84.)

Economic Uses
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (DD; meat, hide, oil, fat, bones, tusks; 86-88.)

Embryology and Ontogeny
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Growth Rates; Teratology)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (DD; lips; 90.)

Eotherium Owen, 1875 (non Leidy, 1853)
(= Eotheroides)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (m98.)

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 1928 Prater, S.H. (DD; 88.)

Food Plants: Cymodocea australis
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (Madagascar; 88.)

Food Plants: Halophila ovalis
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (Australia; 88.)

Food Plants: Zostera capricornis
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (Australia; 88.)

Halicore dugong (Gmelin, 1788) Illiger, 1811
(= Dugong dugon)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (gen. acc.; 84-97, pls. 1-4.)

Halitherium Kaup, 1838
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (m98.)

Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (DD; nets, harpoons; 87-88.)

India
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (DD; 85-86.)

Individual Variation
(SEE ALSO: Skeleton)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (DD; manus; 95.)

Locomotion
(SEE ALSO: Respiration and Diving)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (DD; 95-96.)

Manatus americanus (Link, 1795) Illiger, 1815
(= Trichechus manatus; also used by many authors for T. inunguis)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (m86.)

Manatus inunguis Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883
(= Trichechus inunguis)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (m86.)

Manatus senegalensis Desmarest, 1817
(homonym of Trichechus senegalensis Link, 1795)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (m86.)

Medicinal Applications
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (DD; fat, oil, bones; 87.)

Mermaid Legend
(SEE ALSO: Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Ri)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (DD; Indian Ocean; legends; 96-97.)

Metaxytherium de Christol, 1840
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (m98.)

Natural Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Captivity, Sirenians in; Natural Enemies; Pathology; Temperature, Effects of)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (DD; India; m88.)

Prorastomus Owen, 1855
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. ("Porastomus"; m98.)

Red Sea
(SEE ALSO: Africa; Asia)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (DD; 84, pl. 1.)

Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use; Mermaid Legend)
  x * 1928 Prater, S.H. (DD; Madagascar, rites, 87; rosaries, 88; treasure in stomach, 88-89; tears, 95; myths, 96-97.)

Rytina stelleri (Retzius, 1794) Desmarest, 1819
(= Hydrodamalis gigas)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. ("Rhytina"; m86.)

Sense Organs
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception; Brain and Nervous System; Digestive System; Skeleton; Sound Production)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (dugong tears; 94-95.)

Sri Lanka
(formerly Ceylon)
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (DD; 85-86.)

Vernacular Names
  x 1928 Prater, S.H. (DD; Malay, Tamil, 85; European languages, 96.)


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