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Sverdrup, Harald Ulrik (detail)
   
1930
Plavanie na sudne "Mod" v vodakh morei Laptevykh i Vostochno-Sibirskogo. [Voyage of the ship "Maud" to the waters of the Laptev Sea and eastern Siberia.]
Akad. Nauk SSSR, Komissiia po Izucheniiu Iàkuťskoi ASSR, Materialy No. 30: lviii + 440. 17 figs. 31 pls. 4 portraits. 11 maps.
–In Russian. The sir. material (p. 248) may be translated as follows: {"In connection with this it is worth mentioning that one Russian told us about a specimen of the sea cow (Rhitina), extinct by now since about the 1770s or, at the latest, the 1850s; this sea cow specimen was brought by the current to Cape Chaplin 8-10 years ago [i.e., during the period 1910-1917]."} This hearsay report is uncorroborated.

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Bering Sea
(SEE ALSO: Alaska; Asia; Hydrodamalis and synonyms; Pacific Ocean)
  x 1930 Sverdrup, H.U. (HG; Cape Chaplin, ca. 1910; 248.)

Rytina Illiger, 1811
(= Hydrodamalis. Spelled Rhytina by Berthold, 1827, and most later authors; this is an unjustified emendation.)
  x 1930 Sverdrup, H.U. ("Rhitina"; Cape Chaplin, Siberia, ca. 1910; 248.)


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