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Stejneger, Leonhard
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1883 |
Contributions to the history of the Commander Islands. No. 1. Notes on the natural history, including descriptions of new cetaceans.
Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 6(4-6): 58-89. June 20, 22, 23, 1883.
–Gives an account of collecting Hydrodamalis bones on Bering Island (59, 61-62); discusses individual and sexual variation in the skulls and mandibles (78-83); defends 1768 as the date of the sea cow's extermination (83-84); concludes that its geographic distribution included the Aleutians but probably not the northern Bering Sea (84). Lucien M. Turner's report (cited here) of sea cow bones in the Aleutians, and of an Aleutian vernacular name for the sea cow (kukh-sukh-tukh), was never published so far as I know; but see also F. W. True (1884b: 136). Notes the destruction of Hydrodamalis specimens by a fire in the Irkutsk museum (84); discusses the Kamchadal name kapustnik for the sea cow (85); and weighs the evidence concerning the shape of the animal's caudal fin (85-86).
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Related Index Records (10)
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Alaska
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1883 |
Stejneger, L. (HG; Aleutians; 84.) |
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Bering Sea
(SEE ALSO: Alaska; Asia; Hydrodamalis and synonyms; Pacific Ocean)
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1883 |
Stejneger, L. (HG; Bering Is.; collection of specimens, 59, 61-62; extermination, 83-84; distr., 84.) |
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Individual Variation
(SEE ALSO: Skeleton)
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1883 |
Stejneger, L. (HG; skull; 79-83.) |
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Manati balaenurus Boddaert, 1785
(= Hydrodamalis gigas)
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1883 |
Stejneger, L. (syn. of Rytina gigas; m78, m86.) |
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Manati gigas Zimmermann, 1780
(= Hydrodamalis gigas)
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1883 |
Stejneger, L. (priority of name; m78.) |
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Rytina gigas (Zimmermann, 1780) Gray, 1850
(= Hydrodamalis gigas)
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1883 |
Stejneger, L. (collection of specimens, 59, 61-62; sexual variation, 78-83; date of extermination, 83-84; distr., 84; specimens at Irkutsk destroyed, 84; vernacular name, 85; tail shape & sketches, 85-86.) |
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Rytina stelleri (Retzius, 1794) Desmarest, 1819
(= Hydrodamalis gigas)
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1883 |
Stejneger, L. ("Rhytina"; syn. of R. gigas; m78.) |
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Skeleton
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
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1883 |
Stejneger, L. (HG; collection, 59, 61-62; sexual variation, 78-83; tail, 86; specimens at Irkutsk destroyed, 84.) |
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Trichechus borealis (Gmelin, 1788) Shaw, 1800
(= Hydrodamalis gigas)
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1883 |
Stejneger, L. (syn. of Rytina gigas; m78.) |
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Vernacular Names
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1883 |
Stejneger, L. (HG; Aleutians, 84; Kamchatka, 85.) |
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