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Hydrodamalis gigas

Description

Hydrodamalis gigas (Zimmermann, 1780). Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2, p. 426.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Kamchatsk. Obi., Commander Isis., Bering Isl.

DISTRIBUTION: Originally coasts of N. Pacific Ocean, but in historic time known only from Commander Isis. (U.S. S. R.). Extirpated about 1770. Reviewed by Heptner and Naumov, eds., 1967, [Mammals of the Soviet Union], 2(l):25-46; see also Domning, 1975, J. Mammal., 56:556- 558.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Sirenia, pp. 305-306 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 305, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353046

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Biodiversity

Family
Dugongidae
Genus
Hydrodamalis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Sirenia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Zimmermann
Species
gigas
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hydrodamalis gigas (Zimmermann, 1780) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Heptner, V. G., and N. P. Naumov, (eds). 1967. Mlekopitayushchie Sovetskovo Soyuza. Morskie korovy i khishchnye [Mammals of the Soviet Union. Sea cows and carnivores]. Vysshaya Shkola, Moscow, 2 (1): 1 - 1004 (in Russian).