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APPENDIX 4. Classification and Synonymy of the Sirenia and ...

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Holotype. - UCMP 86433, skull <strong>and</strong> much <strong>of</strong> skeleton <strong>of</strong> immature individual.<br />

Type Locality. - UCMP loc. V70148, Avila Beach, San Luis Obispo County, California,<br />

Formation. - Pismo Formation, Squire Member.<br />

Age. - Late Pliocene (Blancan).<br />

Remarks. – H. spissa may be a valid species.<br />

Hydrodamalis gigas (Zimmermann, 1780) Palmer, 1895<br />

Phoca manatus (Linnaeus) Brisson, 1762 [partim], Regnum Animale: 16<strong>4.</strong><br />

Manati gigas Zimmermann, 1780, Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. vierfüss. Thiere 2: 426. [Placed on <strong>the</strong><br />

Official List <strong>of</strong> Specific Names by ICZN Opinion 1320, Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 42(2): 175-<br />

176, June 1985, with <strong>the</strong> Name Number 2965.]<br />

Manati Balaenurus Boddaert, 1785, Elenchus Anim. 1: 173. [Based on Pennant's "Whale-tailed<br />

Manati".]<br />

Trichechus Manatus borealis Gmelin, 1788, C. Linné Syst. Nat., ed. 13, vol. 1: 61.<br />

H[ydrodamalis]. Stelleri Retzius, 1794, K. Svensk. Vetenskapsacad. H<strong>and</strong>l. (2)15: 292, Oct.-<br />

Dec. 179<strong>4.</strong><br />

S[irene]. borealis (Gmelin) Link, 1794, Beytr. Naturgesch. 1(1): 68.<br />

M[anatus]. borealis (Gmelin) Link, 1795, Beytr. Naturgesch. 1(2): 110.<br />

Manatus Balaenurus (Boddaert) Bechstein, 1800, Thomas Pennant's Allgemeine Uebersicht der<br />

vierfüssigen Thiere 2: 732.<br />

Trichechus Borealis (Gmelin) Shaw, 1800, Gen. Zool. 1: 240.<br />

Nepus Stelleri (Retzius) Fischer von Waldheim, 1814, Zoognosia, ed. 3, 3: 641.<br />

Rytina borealis (Gmelin) Illiger, 1815, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1804-11: 64, 75. [Illiger referred<br />

this species to Rytina in 1811 (Prodromus Syst. Mamm. Av.: 141, but did not actually<br />

publish <strong>the</strong> combination.]<br />

Rytina cetacea Illiger, 1815, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1804-11: 68.<br />

Rytina stelleri (Retzius) Desmarest, 1819, Nouv. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. 29: 57<strong>4.</strong><br />

Stellerus borealis (Gmelin) Desmarest, 1822, Mammalogie 2: 510.<br />

Haligyna borealis (Gmelin) Billberg, 1827, Syn. Faunae Sc<strong>and</strong>. 1(1): 33.<br />

Rh[ytine]. Stelleri (Retzius) Burmeister, 1837, H<strong>and</strong>b. Naturgesch.: 793.<br />

Rytina gigas (Zimmermann) Gray, 1850, Cat. Specs. Mamm. Coll. Br. Mus. 1: 14<strong>4.</strong><br />

Manatus gigas (Zimmermann) Lucas, 1891, Rept. U.S. Natl. Mus. 1888-89: 623.<br />

Hydrodamalis gigas (Zimmermann) Palmer, 1895, Science (2)2(40): 449, Oct. 4, 1895.<br />

[Combinations with Rhytina omitted.]<br />

Type. - No type specimens have been formally designated. All <strong>the</strong> above names are based<br />

on <strong>the</strong> verbal description by Steller (1751), <strong>and</strong> are <strong>the</strong>refore objective synonyms. The<br />

masticatory plates illustrated in <strong>the</strong> latter paper, which are preserved in St. Petersburg, are <strong>the</strong><br />

only surviving specimens <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> type series <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>refore constitute <strong>the</strong> types; skin fragments<br />

attributed to this species are <strong>of</strong> questionable identity (see Domning, 1978b: 132).<br />

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Daryl P. Domning, Bibliography <strong>and</strong> Index <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Sirenia</strong> <strong>and</strong> Desmostylia,<br />

http://www.sirenian.org/biblio/<br />

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