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1719 |
Voyages aux côtes de Guinée & en Amerique. Par Mr. N***.
Amsterdam, aux depens d'Etienne Roger:
1-416. Frontisp. 38 pls.
–An extremely rare work. The copy I examined (in the library of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil) was accompanied by an excerpt from the catalog of an anonymous bookseller, who felt convinced after considerable research that the author was the Dominican priest Godefroy Loyer (born 1660 or 1666, died 1715). Loyer wrote a Relation du Royaume d'Issyny, Côte-d'Or, Pais de Guinée, avec ce qui s'y passé ... dans l'etablissement que les François y ont fait.... (Paris, 1714). I have not seen the latter, but the bookseller states that it is remarkably similar in content to the 1719 Amsterdam work, and he suggests that the latter was a version of Loyer's book adapted for a Protestant rather than Catholic audience, perhaps actually printed in France and sold in Amsterdam by Roger with his own title-page.
Half the book is devoted to West Africa (Ghana, Gambia, Senegal, etc.) and the rest to the West Indies (Martinique, Cayenne, and St. Domingue). The following account of the (African?) manatee is on p. 70:
{"Il y a plusieurs autres sortes de Poissons le Requiem, le Lamantin, la Bécasse de Mer, la Bécune.
"Je parlerai du Requiem dans la suite, pour le Lamantin c'est un monstre marin, qui a la tête fort semblable à celle d'une vache; ce poisson monstrueux est fort bon à manger. Il vient d'une grandeur & d'une grosseur prodigieuse, la fémelle met ses petits dehors à la façon des vaches, & elles ont d'eux tetines avec lesquelles elles les allaitent; elles les portent entre deux petits bras qu'elles ont, comme vous le pouvez voir dans la Figure."}
The plate facing p. 69 (labelled "Page 70") is redrawn and reversed from that in C. de Rochefort (1667 and earlier eds.).
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N. N.
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1655 |
America: or an exact description of the West Indies: more especially of those provinces which are under the dominion of the King of Spain.
London, printed by Ric. Hodgkinsonne for Edw. Dod:
1-484. 1 map.
–Allen 78. Account of the Manati or Oxe-fish, based mainly on Hernandez and Laet (154-155).
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Nabor, Peter; Patton, Geoffrey W.
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1988 |
Manatee aerial survey program 1987 final report: studies of the West Indian manatee, Anna Maria to northern Charlotte Harbor and the Myakka River.
Mote Mar. Lab. Tech. Rept.
No. 127: v + 45 + 14. 13 tabs. 17 figs. + 14 figs. in appendix. July 5, 1988.
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Nabor, Peter; Patton, Geoffrey W.
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1989 |
Aerial studies of the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) from Anna Maria Florida to northern Charlotte Harbor including the Myakka River: recommended habitat protection and manatee management strategies.
Mote Marine Lab. Tech. Rept.
No. 134: iv + 94. 9 tabs. 28 figs. Jan. 31, 1989.
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Nachtigal, Gustav
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1881 |
Săharâ und Sûdân. Ergebnisse sechsjähriger Reisen in Afrika.
Berlin, Weidmann (2 vols., 1879-81):
Vol. 2: xxiv + 790.
–Sirs., 670.
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Nagao, Takumi
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1935a |
On the teeth of Desmostylus.
Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan
42(505): 605-614. 2 pls. Oct. 20, 1935.
–In Japanese.
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Nagao, Takumi
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1935b |
Desmostylus mirabilis sp. nov. from Keton in Saghalin.
Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan
42(507): 822-824. Dec. 20, 1935.
–In Japanese; Engl. summ.
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Nagao, Takumi
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1937a |
A new species of Desmostylus from Japanese Saghalien and its geological significance.
Proc. Imper. Acad. Tokyo
13(2): 46-49. 3 figs. Feb. 1937.
–Abstr.: Jap. Jour. Geol. Geogr. 14(3/4): abstr.-page 58, Oct. 1937. Describes Desmostylus minor from the Lower Miocene of Sakhalin.
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Nagao, Takumi
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1937b |
Desmostylella, a new genus of Desmostylidae from Japan.
Proc. Imper. Acad. Tokyo
13(3): 82-85. 4 figs. Mar. 1937.
–Abstr.: Jap. Jour. Geol. Geogr. 14(3/4): abstr.-page 58-59, Oct. 1937. Describes Desmostylella typica, n.gen.n.sp., from the Miocene of Honshu.
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Nagao, Takumi
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1937c |
A new occurrence of a small Desmostylus tooth in Hokkaidô.
Proc. Imper. Acad. Tokyo
13(4): 110-113. 9 figs. Apr. 1937.
–Abstr.: Jap. Jour. Geol. Geogr. 14(3/4): abstr.-page 59, Oct. 1937. Describes a specimen of uncertain age that he refers to Desmostylus minor.
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Nagao, Takumi
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1937d |
Classification and geological distribution of the Desmostylidae.
Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan
44(525): 533-534.
–Abstr.: Jap. Jour. Geol. Geogr. 14(3/4): abstr.-page 59, Oct. 1937.
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Nagao, Takumi
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1941 |
On the skeleton of Desmostylus.
Jubilee Publication in Commemoration of Prof. H. Yabe's 60th Birthday:
43-52.
–In Japanese; Engl. summ.
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Nagao, Takumi; Oishi, Saburo
(detail)
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1934 |
Newly discovered Desmostylus remains in the frontier district of south Sakhalin.
Jour. Geogr.
(Tokyo)
46(541): 103-111. 1 map. Mar. 1934.
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Nagasawa,Kazuo; Kobayashi, Shoji
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1998 |
A fossil sea cow from the Pliocene Nakawatari Formation in Tozawa-mura of the western part of the Shinjo Basin, Yamagata Prefecture, northeast Japan.
[Serial?]
1998: 9-25. 6 tabs. 5 figs. 1 pl. Mar. 1998.
–In Japanese; Engl. summ. Describes a rib of Hydrodamalis sp. and compares it with other hydrodamalines.
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Nair, R. V.; Lal Mohan, R. S.
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1977 |
Studies on the vocalisation of the sea cow Dugong dugon in captivity.
Indian Jour. Fish.
22(1/2): 277-278. 1 tab. Aug. 1977.
–Sound recordings in air showed "chirp-squeaks" from 3 to 8 kHz in frequency.
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Nakaoka, Masahiro; Aioi, Keiko
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1999 |
Growth of seagrass Halophila ovalis at dugong trails compared to existing within-patch variation in a Thailand intertidal flat.
Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser.
184: 97-103. 2 tabs. 4 figs. July 28, 1999.
–Reports induction of adaptive morphological plasticity (e.g., in rhizome branching frequency and internode length) of Halophila in dugong feeding trails within 7-10 days. Growth and productivity did not show an increase on this short a time scale; but production rate was nonetheless great enough (7.5 g dry weight per square meter per day) to revegetate trails in less than 10 days, and much greater than a dugong's estimated daily consumption rate (ca. 0.06 g dry weight per square meter per day).
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Naora, Nobuo
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1944 |
[History of mammals in Japan.]
Nara, Yotoku-sha:
1-265.
–In Japanese.
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Nateekanjanalarp, S.; Sudara, S.
(detail)
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1994 |
Dugong protection awareness: an approach for coastal conservation.
Third ASEAN-Australia Symposium on Living Coastal Resources
(Bangkok, Chulalongkorn Univ.),
_
Proc. Vol. 2, Research Papers: 515-525.
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Natiello, M.; Samuelson, Don A.
(detail)
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2005 |
Three-dimensional reconstruction of the angioarchitecture of the ciliary body of the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus).
Veterinary Ophthalmology
8(6): 367-373.
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Naumova, E. I.
(detail)
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1986 |
[Functional morphology of the digestive tract.] In: V. E. Sokolov (ed.), Lamantin: morfologicheskie adaptatsii (q.v.).
Moscow, "Nauka" (Akad. Nauk SSSR) (405 pp.):
312-330.
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Neish, W. D.
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1896 |
The manatee, Manatus australis.
Jour. Inst. Jamaica
2(3): 287-288. "July, 1896" (issued Nov. 10, 1896).
–Gen. acc. of West Indian manatees, with comments on some specimens recently captured, and measurements of one animal. States that the manatee is uncommon but not rare in Jamaica.
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Nelson, Edward William
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1916 |
The larger North American mammals.
Natl. Geogr. Mag.
30(5): 385-472. 73 figs. Nov. 1916.
–Repr. in his Wild Animals of North America (Washington, Natl. Geogr. Soc., 1918). Florida manatee, 465, 467-468.
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Nelson, Michael S.
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1992 |
Save the Manatee Club.
Florida Naturalist
65(2): 18. Summer 1992.
–Summarizes the Club's activities over the previous year.
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Nemoto, H.
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1963 |
A desmostylid excavation trip to Hatsuyukizawa, Keton, Saghalin.
Warera-no-Kobutsu
5(1): 10-18.
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Ness, P. S.
(detail)
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1986 |
Introducing the West Indian manatee.
Freshwater Mar. Aquar.
9(10): 50-51. Illus.
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Ness, Traci L.; Bradley, W. Guy; Reynolds, John E., III; Roess, William B.
(detail)
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1998 |
Isolation and expression of the interleukin-2 gene from the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
Mar. Mamm. Sci.
14(3): 531-543. 1 tab. 3 figs. "July 1998" (mailed June 16, 1998).
–Reports that killer whale IL-2 displays 80% nucleotide sequence homology and 64% amino acid homology with that of the Florida manatee (538-539).
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Netto, Felippe Joaquim de Souza
(detail)
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1911 |
Relatorio da Recebedoria do Estado do Amazonas. In: A. C. R. Bittencourt, Mensagem lida perante o Congresso dos Representantes por occasião da abertura da primera sessão ordinaria da setima legislatura em 10 de Julho de 1910.
Manaus (Brazil), Secção de Obras da Imprensa Official (387 pp.),
Annexo no. 29: 1-16. Tabs.
–Gives some statistics on the production of mixira (canned manatee meat) in the State of Amazonas during 1909 and 1910 (in annexos 1, 1ABC, 2, and 2C).
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Neumann
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18?? |
[Title?]
Jour. Geogr. Soc. Irkutzk
–Publ. before 1883.
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Neumann, Dietrich
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1936 |
Das Handskelett von Halitherium schinzi Kaup.
Pal. Zs.
(Berlin)
18(3/4): 257-291. 4 figs. 2 pls. Dec. 31, 1936.
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Neumayer, E.
(detail)
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1983 |
Prehistoric Indian rock paintings.
Bombay, Oxford Univ. Press:
vii + 159. 17 pls.
–Interprets rock paintings at Gandhi Sagar, Rajasthan, India as Mesolithic representations of dugongs (41, 146).
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Neviani, Antonio
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1886a |
Sui giacimenti dei cetacei fossili nel Monteleonese con indicazioni di altri rinvenuti nelle Calabrie.
Bol. Soc. Geol. Ital.
5(1): 61-73.
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Neviani, Antonio
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1886b |
Mammiferi marini che si rinvennero fossili nelle Calabrie.
Il Calabro
(Catanzaro, Italy)
59(2): 1-12. June 19, 1886.
–Engl. summ. Also publ. as a separate: Catanzaro, Tipografia del "Calabro", 1886: 1-12. Reports the first fossil sir. remains found in Calabria, from two Middle Miocene localities: two rib fragments from Baracche di Catanzaro, and a tusk with a third rib fragment, from Crichi (7-9).
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Neviani, Antonio
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1888 |
Contribuzione alla paleontologia della provincia di Catanzaro.
Bol. Soc. Geol. Ital.
6(1): 63-69.
–Mentions fragmentary remains (ribs and tusks) of Metaxytherium sp. found in a Miocene conglomerate near Crichi, Italy (68-69).
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Neville, Melvin; Castro, Napoleón; Mármol Burgos, Andrés E.; Revilla, Juan
(detail)
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1976 |
Censusing primate populations in the reserved area of the Pacaya and Samiria Rivers, Department Loreto, Peru.
Primates
17(2): 151-181. Apr. 1976.
–Notes that T. inunguis seemed to be abundant in the Santa Elena R., a tributary of the Samiria, and that one was drowned in a net (155).
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Newton, Edwin Tulley
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1891 |
The Vertebrata of the Pliocene deposits of Britain.
Gen. Mem. Geol. Surv. United Kingdom
12: xi + 138. 10 pls.
–Sirs., 48, pl. 5.
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Nicholson, Henry Alleyne; Lydekker, Richard
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1889 |
A manual of palaeontology, for the use of students; with a general introduction on the principles of palaeontology. Ed. 3.
Edinburgh & London, W. Blackwood & Sons (2 vols.):
Vol. 2: xi + 889-1624. Figs. 813-1354.
–Rev.: Rev. Quest. Sci. 28: 327-342, 1891? The first and second eds. were by Nicholson alone (1872, 1879). Sirs., 212.
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Nickel, Birgit
(detail)
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1995 |
Zur palynostratigraphischen Einstufung des Sirenen-Fundortes Schauenburg-Hoof bei Kassel.
Philippia
7(2): 165-167. Illus.
–Engl. summ. Discusses a ?middle Rupelian (Oligocene) locality of ?Halitherium.
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Nico, Leo G.
(detail)
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2010 |
Nocturnal and diurnal activity of armored suckermouth catfish (Loricariidae: Pterygoplichthys) associated with wintering Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris).
Neotropical Ichthyology
8(4): 893-898. 3 figs.
–Portuguese summ.
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Nico, Leo G.; Loftus, W. F.; Reid, James P.
(detail)
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2009 |
Interactions between non-native armored suckermouth catfish (Loricariidae: Pterygoplichthys) and native Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) in artesian springs.
Aquatic Invasions
4(3): 511-519.
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Nicorici, Eugen; Popovici, Nicolae
(detail)
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1984 |
Sirenid endocranial cast from the Upper Eocene of Transylvania.
Dari Seama Şedinţelor Inst. Geol. Geofiz. Rom.
68(3): 91-95. 2 pls.
–In Romanian; Engl. and French summs.
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Nieremberg, Juan Eusebio
(detail)
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1635 |
Historia naturae, maxime peregrinae, libris XVI. distincta. In quibus rarissima naturae arcana, etiam astronomica, & ignota Indiarum animalia, quadrupedes, aues, pisces, reptilia, insecta, zoophyta, plantae, metalla, lapides, & alia mineralia, fluuiorumq'ue & elementorum conditiones, etiam cum proprietatibus medicinalibus, describuntur; nouae & curiosissimae quaestiones disputatur, ac plura sacrae Scripturae loca eruditè enodantur. Accedunt de miris & miraculosis naturis in Europâ libri duo: item de iisdem in Terrâ Hebraeis promisâ liber vnus.
Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti:
[8] + 502 + [104]. Illus.
–Sirs., lib. 11, cap. 9, p. 269.
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Nietschmann, Bernard
(detail)
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1971 |
Hunting and fishing focus among the Miskito Indians, eastern Nicaragua.
Human Ecology
1(1): 41-67.
–States that manatees make up less than 3% of the meat poundage obtained by hunting.
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Nietschmann, Bernard
(detail)
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1973 |
Between land and water: the subsistence ecology of the Miskito Indians, eastern Nicaragua.
New York & London, Seminar Press:
xiv + 279.
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Nietschmann, Bernard
(detail)
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1977 |
The wind caller.
Nat. Hist.
(New York)
86(3): 10-12, 14, 16. 1 fig. Mar. 1977.
–Repr.: Reader's Digest, Canadian ed., Oct. 1977. Pop. acc. of the Torres Strait area, including traditional lore on the feeding behavior of dugongs and their movements with respect to the tides (10-12, 14).
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Nietschmann, Bernard
(detail)
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1984 |
Hunting and ecology of dugongs and green turtles, Torres Strait, Australia.
Natl. Geogr. Soc. Res. Rept.
17: 625-651. 5 tabs. 11 figs.
–Relatively non-detailed account of a year-long research visit to Mabuiag Is., with catch statistics and measurements on dugongs and turtles caught (1976-79), percentages of seagrass species found in dugong stomachs, lists of Islander terms for categories of dugongs and turtles, and other data on natural history and human ecology.
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Nietschmann, Bernard; Nietschmann, Judith
(detail)
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1981 |
Good dugong, bad dugong; bad turtle, good turtle.
Nat. Hist.
(New York)
90(5): 54-63. 11 figs. May 1981.
–Gen. acc. of dugong and turtle ecology and hunting, and their role in Torres Strait society and economy.
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Nieuhof, Johan (= Jean Nieuhoff)
(detail)
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1665 |
L'ambassade de la Companie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers l'Empereur de la Chine, ou Grand Cam de Tartarie, faite par les Srs. Pierre de Goyer, & Jacob de Keyser, illustrée d'une tres-exacte description des villes, bourgs, villages, ports de mers, & autres lieux plus considerables de la Chine: enrichie d'un grand nombre de tailles douces. Le tout recueilli par le Mr. Jean Nieuhoff, ...: mis en francois, orné, et assorti de mille belles particularitez tant morales que politiques, par Jean le Carpentier, historiographe.
Leiden, J. de Meurs (2 parts in 1 vol.):
xii + 290 + 134. Illus.
–Sirs., 2: 100.
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Nifong, James C.; Frick, Michael G.
(detail)
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2011 |
First Record of the American Alligator (Alligator Mississippiensis) as a Host to the Sea Turtle Barnacle (Chelonibia Testudinaria.
Southeastern Naturalist
10(3): 557-560. 2 figures. DOI: 10.1656/058.010.0316. 2011.
–ABSTRACT: Chelonibia testudinaria (Sea Turtle Barnacle) and other closely related barnacle species of the genus Chelonibia are known to utilize a variety of organisms for their attachment substrate. These include the calcified exoskeleton of marine crustaceans and chelicerids, the epidermis of manatees, and the carapace regions of all extant sea turtle species. Here, we present the first records of an Alligator mississippiensis (American Alligator; Alligatoridae) as a host for C. testudinaria.
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Nigrelli, R. F.
(detail)
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1940 |
Mortality statistics for specimens in the New York Aquarium, 1939.
Zoologica
25: 525-552.
–Amphistome parasite in cecum of T. manatus, 550.
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Nimuendajú, Curt
(detail)
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1952 |
The Tukuna. [Ed. by R. H. Lowie; transl. by W. D. Hohenthal.]
Univ. California Publ. Amer. Archaeol. Ethnol.
45: x + 209. 13 figs. 18 pls. 1 map. Apr. 16, 1952.
–P. 26: {"The peixe-boi, or manatee (Manatus inunguis; T[ukuna]., a'iruvë), is rarely caught. The Tukuna do not kill the red dolphin (Delphinus sp.), notwithstanding their dislike for it because it scares away the fish."} This relates to the region of the Rio Solimões or Amazon between Leticia and Tonantins, Brazil.
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Nishiwaki, Masaharu
(detail)
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1967 |
Distribution and migration of marine mammals in the North Pacific area.
Bull. Ocean Res. Inst. Univ. Tokyo
No. 1: 1-64. 22 figs. 8 pls. Dec. 1967.
–Sirs., 7-8?
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Nishiwaki, Masaharu
(detail)
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1972 |
General biology. In: S. H. Ridgway (ed.), Mammals of the sea: biology and medicine.
Springfield (Illinois), Charles C Thomas (812 pp.):
3-204.
–Sirs., 192-200.
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Nishiwaki, Masaharu
(detail)
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1978 |
Recent distribution and status of Dugong. [Abstr.]
Congressus Theriol. Internatl.
2: 94. Illus.
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Nishiwaki, Masaharu
(detail)
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1984b |
Significance of 55° S in the 'Indian Ocean Sanctuary of Whales' in relation to the distribution of marine mammals.
Mem. Natl. Inst. Polar Res., Special Issue
No. 32: 122-129. Illus.
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Nishiwaki, Masaharu; Marsh, Helene D.
(detail)
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1985 |
Dugong, Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776). In: S. H. Ridgway & R. J. Harrison (eds.), Handbook of marine mammals. Vol. 3.
London, Academic Press:
1-31. 1 tab. 10 figs.
–Rev.: G.B. Rathbun, Mar. Mamm. Sci. 2(3): 236-237, Jul. 1986.
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Nishiwaki, Masaharu; Kasuya, Toshio; Miyazaki, Nobuyuki; Tobayama, Teruo; Kataoka, Teruo
(detail)
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1979 |
Present distribution of the dugong in the world.
Sci. Rept. Whales Res. Inst.
No. 31: 133-141. 2 figs. Dec. 1979.
–Abstr.: Nishiwaki et al. (1981). Summarizes dugong distribution based on interview surveys, and recognizes 5 more or less discrete areas of relatively continuous distribution: eastern Australia, eastern Papua New Guinea, and Melanesia; western Australia, Moluccas, and Philippines; Sumatra, Malaysia, and Andamans; India and Sri Lanka; and East Africa and Madagascar. Suggests that dugong populations in the latter two regions are declining, and offers a population guesstimate of 30,000 animals worldwide. Cites records of rare dugong occurrences at Guam and Yap; discusses the roles of water temperature and ocean currents in dugong distribution; and notes the issuance of dugong postage stamps by the Ryukyus (in 1966) and Tanzania (in 1977).
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Nishiwaki, Masaharu; Yamaguchi, M.; Shokita, S.; Uchida, Senzo; Kataoka, Teruo
(detail)
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1982 |
Recent survey on the distribution of the African manatee.
Sci. Rept. Whales Res. Inst.
No. 34: 137-147. 2 figs. Dec. 1982.
–An interview survey in 1980-81 found evidence of T. senegalensis mainly in the Niger River and its tributaries; also in the Sanaga and Ivindo Rivers in Cameroon and Gabon, respectively; and in Gambia, Ivory Coast, and Ghana to some extent. They were found to be scarce or absent elsewhere, and not found at all in salt water. [More recent work by J. A. Powell, Jr., casts doubt on the accuracy of many statements in this report.] Points out the need for an international conservation strategy for the manatee.
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Noack, Th.
(detail)
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1887 |
Lebende Manati.
Zool. Garten
(Frankfurt)
28(10): 293-302.
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Noack, Th.
(detail)
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1889 |
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Säugethierfauna von Süd- und Südwestafrika.
Zool. Jahrb.
4(1): 94-261.
–Sirs., 105.
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Nojima, Takao
(detail)
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1988 |
Developmental pattern of the bony falx and bony tentorium of spotted dolphins (Stenella attenuata) and the relationship between degree of development and age.
Mar. Mamm. Sci.
4(4): 312-322. 2 tabs. 3 figs. Oct. 1988.
–Mentions the presence of a bony falx cerebri of the "carnivore type" in Dugong and Trichechus; i.e., a bony falx that is an integral part of the skull bones and not an ossification seen only in old age (315, 320).
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Nolan, T. B.
(detail)
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1964 |
Areal and stratigraphic range of desmostylians. In: Geological Survey research, 1964.
U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper
501A: A136-A137.
–Summarizes the known ranges of desmostylians and their possible geologic and biogeographic implications.
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Nopcsa, Franz von
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1923 |
Vorläufige Notiz über die Pachyostose und Osteosklerose einiger mariner Wirbeltiere.
Anat. Anz.
56(15/16): 353-359. Feb. 26, 1923.
–Discusses pachyostosis and related physiological phenomena with reference to adaptation to air-breathing and submergence in sirs. and other marine vertebrates. Concludes that heavy bones serve as ballast, at least in earlier stages of aquatic adaptation, but that pachyostosis and osteosclerosis are basically disturbances of function that might in some cases bring about extinction.
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Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik
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1881a |
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World. [Transl. by A. Leslie.]
London, Macmillan & Co. (2 vols.):
Vol. 1: xxv + 524; Vol. 2: xvii + 646 [464?]. Figs. Maps.
–This was the first Engl. ed.; original ed. in Swedish, 1880. American ed., New York, Macmillan: xxvi + 756, 1882. German eds., Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna, 1882; St. Petersburg, 1883. Extract: Korresp.-Bl. Deutsch. Ges. Anthrop. 13: 20-21, 30-32, 39, 1 fig., 1882?
Gen. acc. of Steller's sea cow and the history of its hunting (2: 272-276); reports of live sea cows at Bering Island ca. 1780 and 1854 (276-278); account of collecting sea cow bones (278, 280); mention of the natives' use of sea cow ribs for making sledge runners and carvings (280); and mention of the abundance of seaweed at Bering Is. (292). The figs. include illustrations of the Stockholm skeleton of Hydrodamalis (279), reconstructions of the animal by earlier authors (279, 280), and a frond of the alga Thalassiophyllum clathrus (293). See also E.H. Yarnall (1879).
Nordenskiöld's claim in this work that the sea cow survived into the nineteenth century led to several years of dispute between himself (see also Nordenskiöld, 1885b) and L. Stejneger (1884, 1886, 1887). The issue was eventually settled in Stejneger's favor by the paucity and weakness of evidence for sightings after 1768.
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Bemötande af anmärkningar, som riktats mot min skildring af Vegas färd kring Asien och Europa.
Ymer
(Stockholm, Swedish Soc. Anthrop. Geogr.)
5: 246-267.
–Engl. transl.: Nordenskiöld (1885b).
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Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik
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1885b |
Reply to criticisms upon "The voyage of the Vega around Asia and Europe".
Jour. [Bull.] Amer. Geogr. Soc.
17: 267-298. 2 maps.
–Transl. of Nordenskiöld (1885a) by V. A. Elfwing. Replies to Stejneger's (1884) criticisms of Nordenskiöld's (1881a) reports of Steller's sea cow alive at Bering Island after 1768 (280-284). States that the bones he collected were distributed to the museums at Uppsala, Gothenburg, Lund, and principally Stockholm (284-285). Those deposited in Stockholm are said to have included a metacarpal, but this was actually the transverse process of a sacral vertebra (Domning, 1978b: 97-98, pl. 17).
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Nordmann, Alexander von
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1860 |
Palaeontologie Südrusslands. IV. Elephas, Mastodon, Dinotherium, Phoca, Manatus, Cetotherium, Balaena, Balenoptera und Delphinus.
Helsinki, H. C. Friis:
271-360. Pls. 18-28.
–Revs.: Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou 33(3): 377-487?; J. J. Nöggerath, Westermanns Monatsh. 6: 48-50, 1859? Describes scapulae, ribs, and vertebrae of "Manatus maeoticus" from Bessarabia (328-333, pl. 25).
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Nordmann, Alexander von
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1861 |
Zur Paläontologie Südrusslands. Notiz ueber eine Sendung fossiler Knochen aus den Steinbruechen um Kischinew in Bessarabien.
Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou
34(1): 577-586. Pls. 11-12.
–Discusses scapulae, vertebrae, ribs, and sterna of "Manatus maeoticus" (581-582), and illustrates a scapula (pl. 11). The remains are Late Miocene (Sarmatian) in age.
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Nordmann, Alexander von
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1862a |
Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Knochen-baues der Rhytina Stelleri.
Acta Soc. Sci. Fennicae
7: 1-33. Pls. 1-5.
–?Rev.: Arch. Naturgesch. 28: 153? Describes in detail the skeleton of an immature Steller's sea cow in the Helsinki museum. This skeleton was collected by a Finnish expedition on Bering Island, and appears to be genuinely associated, unlike all the other Hydrodamalis skeletons in museums, which are composite. See also P.J. Van Beneden (1862a).
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Norkin, M. (Ed.)
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1980 |
Permanent protection areas proposed for manatee.
Endangered Species Tech. Bull.
(U.S. Fish & Wildl. Serv.)
5(8): 15.
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Noronha, José Monteiro de
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1856 |
Roteiro da cidade do Pará até as últimas colônias dos domínios Portuguêzes em os rios Amazonas e Negro.
Collecção de noticias para a historia e geografia das nações ultramarinas que vivem nos domínios Portuguêzes
(Lisbon, Acad. Real das Sciencias)
6: 1-85.
–Written in 1768 and originally published anonymously. Mentions manatees of the Rio Nhamundá region, Brazil, which furnish unusual amounts of oil (28).
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Norris, C. E.
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1960 |
The dugong. The distribution of the dugong in Ceylon.
Loris
8(5): 296-300. 3 tabs. June 1960.
–Tabulates and analyzes records of dugongs captured in Ceylon in 1957-59. Concludes that the breeding rate is insufficient to offset mortality.
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Norris, H. T.
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1972 |
Saharan myth and saga.
Oxford, Clarendon Press:
xv + 240. Frontisp. Figs. 5 pls. Maps.
–Suggests that the "fishes in human form" mentioned in the tale of the City of Brass and the Cupola of Lead in the 1001 Nights may have been Mauretanian manatees (1-4).
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Norris, Kenneth S.
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1964 |
Some problems of echolocation in cetaceans. In: W. N. Tavolga (ed.), Marine bio-acoustics. Proceedings of a symposium held at the Lerner Marine Laboratory, Bimini, Bahamas, April 11 to 13, 1963.
Oxford, Pergamon Press (xii + 413):
317-336. 5 figs.
–Suggests that the mandibular canal of manatees may function as a wave guide for echolocation signal echoes (334).
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Northridge, S. P.
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1984 |
World review of interactions between marine mammals and fisheries.
U.N. Food & Agric. Organization Fisheries Tech. Paper
251: vii + 190. Illus.
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Notarbartolo Di Sciara, Guiseppe
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1989 |
L'elefante che scelse di vivere sott'acqua. [The elephant who chose to live underwater.]
Airone
(Milan)
100: 90-107. Illus. Aug. 1989.
–Pop. acc. of sirs. and sir. evolution.
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Novacek, Michael J.
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1982 |
Information for molecular studies from anatomical and fossil evidence on higher eutherian phylogeny. In: M. Goodman (ed.), Macromolecular sequences in systematic and evolutionary biology.
New York & London, Plenum Publ. Co.:
3-41. 2 tabs. 2 figs.
–Considers sirs. to be most closely related to proboscideans and (possibly) less close to hyracoids (13, 25-28, 35).
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Novacek, Michael J.
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1986 |
The skull of leptictid insectivorans and the higher-level classification of eutherian mammals.
Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.
183(1): 1-111. 4 tabs. 35 figs. Apr. 29, 1986.
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Novacek, Michael J.
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1989 |
Higher mammal phylogeny: the morphological-molecular synthesis. In: B. Fernholm, K. Brenner, & H. Jörnvall (eds.), The hierarchy of life.
Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (Biomedical Division):
421-435. 4 figs.
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Novacek, Michael J.
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1990 |
Morphology, paleontology, and the higher clades of mammals. In: H. H. Genoways (ed.), Current mammalogy. Vol. 2.
New York, Plenum Publ. Corp.:
507-543. 2 tabs. 2 figs.
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Novacek, Michael J.
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1992 |
Fossils, topologies, missing data, and the higher level phylogeny of eutherian mammals.
Syst. Biol.
41(1): 58-73. 2 tabs. 12 figs. Mar. 1992.
–Concludes that the Tethytheria (Sirenia, Proboscidea, and Desmostylia) are cladistically a well-supported and stable grouping, and that the Paenungulata (Tethytheria + Hyracoidea) are supported when fossil data are included but are considerably less stable than the Tethytheria.
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Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia 