Bibliography Record

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 Rainey, William E.; Lowenstein, Jerold M.; Sarich, Vincent M.; Magor, Diana Marion (detail)
   
1984
Sirenian molecular systematics - including the extinct Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas).
Naturwissenschaften 71(11): 586-588. 1 tab. 1 fig.
–Analysis of bone extracts and serum albumins supports the phyletic branching pattern of the five Recent sir. species derived from the fossil record, but argues for more recent branching points than the fossils suggest.

Related Index Records (8)

Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
  x 1984 Rainey et al. (molecular systematics; 586-587.)
Eotheroides Palmer, 1899
  x 1984 Rainey et al. (dugongid affinities questioned; 587.)
Hydrodamalis cuestae Domning, 1978
  x 1984 Rainey et al. (date of divergence from other dugongids; 587.)
Hydrodamalis gigas (Zimmermann, 1780) Palmer, 1895
  x 1984 Rainey et al. (molecular systematics; 586-587.)
Phylogeny and Affinities of the Sirenia and/or Desmostylia
(SEE ALSO under species)
  x * 1984 Rainey et al. (molecular systematics of sirs.; 586-588.)
Trichechus inunguis (Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Thomas and Lydekker, 1897
  x 1984 Rainey et al. (molecular systematics; 586-587.)
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 1984 Rainey et al. (molecular systematics; 586-587.)
Trichechus senegalensis Link, 1795
  x 1984 Rainey et al. (molecular systematics; 586-587.)

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