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Valentine, John F.; Heck, K. L., Jr.
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The role of leaf nitrogen content in determining turtlegrass (Thalassia testudinum) grazing by a generalized herbivore in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico.
Jour. Exper. Mar. Biol. Ecol.
258(1): 65-86. Mar. 30, 2001.
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Valentry, Duane
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1973 |
Sea cows that would not breed.
Sea Frontiers
19(5): 290-291. 1 fig. Sept.-Oct. 1973.
–Suggests (erroneously) that the captive manatees at the Miami Seaquarium failed to breed because sirs. "may have to float vertically with their heads out of water while mating and therefore would need to be in water deeper than their body length."
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Oud en nieuw Oost-Indiën, vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewestenk, benevens eene wydluftige beschryvinge der Moluccos ... en alle de eylanden onder dezelve landbestieringen behoorende; het Nederlands comptoir op Suratte, en de levens der Groote Mogols....
Dordrecht, J. van Braam (5 vols. in 9, 1724-26).
Illus.
–Sirs., vol. 3: 330, 341. The figure of a mermaid, an artistic improvement on that of Renard, was reproduced by Durand (1983: 210-211).
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1861 |
La côte d'Ostende et les fouilles d'Anvers.
Bull. Acad. Sci. Belgique
(2)12: 453-483.
–Abstr.: Geologist 5: 96-108, 1862? Mentions the extinction of Rhytina stelleri and the acquisition of a skeleton of this species by the St. Petersburg museum (461); discusses Halitherium from the regions of Darmstadt and Linz (481).
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1862a |
Sur le Rhytina stelleri.
Bull. Acad. Sci. Belgique
(2)13(4): 340-341. Read Apr. 5, 1862.
–Quotes a letter from A. von Nordmann on the Helsinki and Russian skeletons, on the occasion of presenting to the Academy a copy of von Nordmann's (1862a) memoir on the Helsinki skeleton.
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1871 |
Un sirénien nouveau du terrain rupélien.
Bull. Acad. Sci. Belgique
(2)32(9/10): 164-178. 4 figs. 1 pl. Read Oct. 14, 1871.
–Abstrs.: Jour. Zool. (Paris) 1: 333-339, 344-351, 1872; L'Institut 1872(1): 85-87. Describes Crassitherium robustum, n.gen.n.sp., from the Oligocene of Belgium, based on part of a ?reptile skull and eight vertebrae referable to Halitherium schinzii (see Sickenberg, 1934: 205, 207).
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1875 |
Les Pachyacanthus du Musée de Vienne.
Bull. Acad. Sci. Belgique
(2)40(9-10): 323-340.
–Also exists as a separate with pages numbered 1-20. Concludes that the vertebrae and ribs attributed to this genus are sirenian, the other elements cetacean; and that the generic name Pachyacanthus should be retained for the sirenian. (All are now considered cetacean.)
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Van Beneden, Pierre Joseph
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1876 |
Les thalassothériens de Baltringen (Wurtemberg).
Bull. Acad. Sci. Belgique
(2)41(3): 471-495. 1 pl. Mar. 1876.
–Also exists as a separate with pages numbered 1-27. Sirs., 18-19.
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Van Beneden, Pierre Joseph
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1880 |
Description des ossements fossiles des environs d'Anvers. Deuxieme partie: Cétacés, genres Balaenula, Balaena, et Balaenotus.
Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Belgique
4: 1-83. 39 pls.
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Van Bree, Peter J. H.; Duguy, R.
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1977 |
Catalogue de la collection des mammifères marins du Muséum de Bordeaux.
Ann. Soc. Sci. Nat. Charente-Maritime
6(4): 289-307. 1 fig. Mar. 1977.
–Lists 19 Dugong specimens, mostly from Indochina and New Caledonia; 2 T. manatus from Guyana and Cuba; 2 T. senegalensis, no localities; 1 T. inunguis, Rio Ucayali, Peru; and 4 Trichechus sp., no localities (290-292). The T. inunguis may be the skeleton mentioned by P. Marcoy (1869: 2:155).
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Van Den Bergh, Hendrik
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1968 |
Animal diving champions.
Animals
10(10): 449-451. 1 fig. Feb. 1968.
–Lists the longest recorded dives of T. manatus (16 min. 20 sec.) and T. senegalensis (7 min.).
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Van den Driesch, A.
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1994 |
Vierhaltung, Jagd und Fischfang in der bronzezeitlichen Siedlung von Shimal bei Ras al-Khaimah - UAE.
Beiträge zur Altorientalischen Archäologie und Altertumskunde. Festschrift fuer Barthel Hrouda zum 65. Geburtstag
(Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz):
73-85.
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Van Der Hagen, Steven
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1644 |
Journael van seven voyagien, beschryvende de gantsche kust van Oost-Indien. 1. Bevaren door Steven van der Hagen.
Amsterdam.
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Van Meter, Victoria Brook
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1977 |
Ecology and life history of the West Indian manatee.
Miami, Florida Power & Light Co.
–Revised ed.: Van Meter (1982). 6,000 printed, 1977-81. This and subsequent eds. were distributed free by the Florida Power & Light Company as a public service.
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1982 |
The West Indian manatee in Florida. [Ed. 2.]
Miami, Florida Power & Light Co.:
1-29. 10 figs.
–A revised ed. of Van Meter (1977). First printing, 30,000; second, 40,000 (June 1984); third, 20,000 (Dec. 1985); fourth, 20,000 (1986). Ed. 3: Van Meter (1987).
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1987 |
The West Indian manatee in Florida. [Ed. 3.]
Miami, Florida Power & Light Co.:
1-41. 13 figs. Nov. 1987.
–A revised and expanded version of Van Meter (1982). First printing, 50,000; second printing, 50,000 (1988); third printing, 37,500 (1990); fourth printing, 20,000 (1991); fifth printing, 40,000 (1992).
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Van Neer, W.; Gautier, A.
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1993 |
Preliminary report on the faunal remains from the coastal site of ed-Dur, 1st-4th century A.D., Umm al-Quwain, United Arab Emirates. In: H. Buitenhuis & A.T. Clason (eds.), Archaeozoology of the Near East.
Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on the Archaeozoology of Southwestern Asia and Adjacent Areas
(Leiden):
110-118.
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Van Oort, Edward Daniël
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1902 |
Ueber einen Sirenenwirbel aus dem Serro Colorado auf Aruba.
Samml. Geol. Mus. Leyden (Beitr. Geol. Niederl.-West-Indien?)
(2)2: 164-168. 1 fig.
–Reports vertebra and ribs of "Manatus" of unknown age. See also J.H. Westermann (1932).
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Van Oort, Edward Daniël
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1903 |
Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss von Halitherium (Lendengegend, Becken und Zungenbeinkörper).
Samml. Geol. Reichsmus. Leyden
(3)2(3): 95-105. 1 fig. 1 pl.
–Abstr.: Jahresber. Anat. Entwickl. (n.s.) 9(3): 191?
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Van Reyk, Peter
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1967 |
Slaughter in the sun.
Loris
11(2): 86-87.
–On the cruelty of butchering dugongs in the markets of Ceylon.
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Van Vliet, Henk Jan; Abu el Khair, Gebely
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A new Eocene marine mammal site in the Qattara depression (Egypt).
Cainozoic Research
7(1-2): 73-77. 5 figs. Apr. 2010.
–The first report of unidentified sirs. in the Qattara Depression (late Bartonian or early Priabonian deposits).
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VanderHoof, Vertress Lawrence
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1935 |
Nature and distribution of Desmostylus, a marine Tertic mammal. [Abstr.]
Pan-Amer. Geol.
64(1): 80. Aug. 1935.
–?Repr.: Proc. Geol. Soc. Amer. 1935: 420, June 1936.
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VanderHoof, Vertress Lawrence
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1937 |
A study of the Miocene sirenian Desmostylus.
Univ. Calif. Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol. Sci.
24(8): 165-261. 65 figs. 2 maps. Oct. 7, 1937.
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VanderHoof, Vertress Lawrence
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1941a |
Miocene sea-cow from Santa Cruz, California, and its bearing on intercontinental correlation. [Abstr.]
Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer.
52(12): 1984-1985. Dec. 1, 1941.
–Reports a skeleton tentatively identified as Metaxytherium petersi, and believed to be ancestral to Hydrodamalis. This specimen was referred to Dusisiren jordani by Domning (1978b).
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VanderHoof, Vertress Lawrence
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1941b |
Oligocene sea-cow remains from east coast of Baja California. [Abstr.]
Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer.
52(12): 1985. Dec. 1, 1941.
–Reports Cornwallius teeth from Baja California and uses them to correlate their source beds with the Sooke Formation of Vancouver Island.
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VanderHoof, Vertress Lawrence
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1942a |
An occurrence of the Tertiary marine mammal Cornwallius in Lower California.
Amer. Jour. Sci.
240(4): 298-301. 3 figs. Apr. 1942.
–Describes teeth of C. sookensis and correlates their horizon with the occurrence of the same species on Vancouver Island.
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VanderHoof, Vertress Lawrence
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1942b |
Bearing of sea-cows on age of Vaqueros. Pp. 40-42 In: H. G. Schenck & T. S. Childs, Jr., Significance of Lepidocyclina ....
Stanford Univ. Publ., Univ. Ser. Geol. Sci.
3: 25-84.
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Vargo, Timothy
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1995 |
Dentition morphology and feeding in the dugong, Dugong dugon [abstr.].
Jour. Minnesota Acad. Sci.
53(3): 20-21.
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Varona, Luis S.
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1972 |
Un dugongido del Mioceno de Cuba (Mammalia: Sirenia).
Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle
(Caracas)
No. 91, Tomo 32: 5-19. 4 tabs. 5 figs. Jan.-Apr., 1972.
–Engl. summ. Describes Metaxytherium riveroi, n.sp., on the basis of an immature partial skeleton from the Middle Miocene of Cuba.
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Varona, Luis S.
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1973 |
Catalogo de los mamiferos vivientes y extinguidos de las Antillas.
Havana, Acad. Cienc. Cuba:
viii + 139. Maps.
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Varona, Luis S.
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1980 |
Mamíferos de Cuba.
Havana, Editorial Gente Nueva:
1-111. Illus.
–Gen. acc. of TMM and other sirs.; 46-52, 2 figs.
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Vaz-Ferreira, R.
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1979 |
Situación poblacional y conservación de los mamíferos marinos en Latinoamérica.
Acta Zool. Lilloana
34: 91-101.
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Vazzana, A.
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1988 |
Sirenidi del Miocene in Calabria.
Not. Mineral. Pal.
No. 56: 27-29. Illus.
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Vazzana, Angelo
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1988 |
I sirenidi del Miocene in Calabria.
Calabria Sconosciuta
(Reggio Calabria)
No. 41: 25-27. 7 figs. Apr.-June 1988.
–Repr., with minor changes in the text and (in part) different figs., in Notiziario di Mineralogia e Paleontologia No. 56: 27-29, 7 figs. July 1988. Reports tusks, vertebrae, and ribs ascribed to Metaxytherium medium; most of these actually pertain to M. serresii (see Carone & Domning, 2007).
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Vélez-Juarbe, Jorge; Domning, Daryl Paul; Pyenson, Nicholas D.
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2012 |
Iterative evolution of sympatric seacow (Dugongidae, Sirenia) assemblages during the past ~26 million years.
PLoS ONE
7(2): e31294. 8 pp. 1 tab. 3 figs. + 1 fig. in Supporting Information. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031294. Feb. 3, 2012.
–Available online at: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0031294.
Abstract: Extant sirenians show allopatric distributions throughout most of their range. However, their fossil record shows evidence of multispecies communities throughout most of the past ~26 million years, in different oceanic basins. Morphological differences among co-occurring sirenian taxa suggest that resource partitioning played a role in structuring these communities. We examined body size and ecomorphological differences (e.g., rostral deflection and tusk morphology) among sirenian assemblages from the late Oligocene of Florida, early Miocene of India and early Pliocene of Mexico; each with three species of the family Dugongidae. Although overlapping in several ecomorphological traits, each assemblage showed at least one dominant trait in which coexisting species differed. Fossil sirenian occurrences occasionally are monotypic, but the assemblages analyzed herein show iterative evolution of multispecies communities, a phenomenon unparalleled in extant sirenian ecology. As primary consumers of seagrasses, these communities likely had a strong impact on past seagrass ecology and diversity, although the sparse fossil record of seagrasses limits direct comparisons. Nonetheless, our results provide robust support for previous suggestions that some sirenians in these extinct assemblages served as keystone species, controlling the dominance of climax seagrass species, permitting more taxonomically diverse seagrass beds (and sirenian communities) than many of those observed today.
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Venzo, Sergio
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1937 |
La fauna cattiana delle glauconie Bellunesi.
Mem. Ist. Geol. Univ. Padova
13: 1-209. 12 pls.
–Considers Halitherium bellunense to be Chattian (Late Oligocene) in age (7, 13, 196).
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Verdon, Michael
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2002 |
Can boaters and manatees coexist?
Boating World,
Mar. 2002: 89-94. 8 figs.
–Nonpartisan account of the disputes between boating interests and environmental groups over manatee protection regulations in Florida.
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Vergara-Parente, Jociery Einhardt
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2005 |
Parte I - Resgate, reabilitação e soltura: sirênios. In: Vergara-Parente, J. E. (ed.), Protocolo de conduta para encalhes de mamíferos aquáticos.
Recife, IBAMA:
83-97.
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Vergara-Parente, Jociery Einhardt; Parente, Cristiano Leite; Marmontel, Miriam; Ramos Silva, Jean Carlos; Bezerra Sá, Fabrício
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2010b |
Standard of measurement among local inhabitants in the middle Solimões, occidental Amazonia, and its use in morphometrics of Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis Natterer, 1883).
Uakari
6(2): 37-43. Dec. 2010.
–Portuguese summ. Measurements of the hand span (tip of thumb to tip of little finger) of 22 Amazonian manatee hunters yielded a mean value of 21.71 cm for the "palmo", the usual unit of measurement they employ for curved-line body lengths of captured manatees. This value differs from some conversion values used in the literature. In the English text of this paper, "palmo" is consistently mistranslated as "inch" rather than "span".
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Verhaart, W. J. C.
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1970 |
Comparative anatomical aspects of the mammalian brain stem and the cord.
Assen (The Netherlands), Konink. Van Gorcum & Comp. N.V.:
Vol. 1 (text): 1-338; Vol. 2 (tabs. & illus.): 1-311.
–Describes a brain of Manatus (1: 208-213); considers its central nervous system to be degenerate.
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Verhaart, W. J. C.
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1972 |
The brain of the seacow Trichechis [sic].
Psychiatr. Neurol. Neurochir.
75(4): 271-292. 14 figs.
–Redescribes G. Jelgersma's (1934) stained serial sections of a brain of T. manatus.
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Veríssimo, José
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1895 |
A pesca na Amazônia.
Rio de Janeiro, Livr. Classica de Alves & Cia.:
1-206.
–Repr.: Univ. Fed. do Pará: 1-130, 1970. A classic work on Brazilian fisheries. Describes in detail the hunting and past and present economic use of T. inunguis in the Brazilian Amazon (35-40, 55, 92-93, 96, 99-102, 117, 119), including some commercial statistics. Also discusses the use of manatees (T. m. manatus) for food in Maranhão (99; page references here and in the Index are to the 1970 reprint ed.).
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Vermeij, Geerat J.
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1993 |
Biogeography of recently extinct marine species: implications for conservation.
Conserv. Biol.
7(2): 391-397. 1 tab. June 1993.
–Mentions Hydrodamalis gigas as an example of a marine species that became extinct despite having an initially large range (392-394).
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Vermeulen, J.
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1966 |
M.U.L.O. dierkunde voor Suriname. Ed. 6.
Paramaribo:
1-227. 246 figs.
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Verne, Jules
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1869 |
Five weeks in a balloon; or, journeys and discoveries in Africa, by three Englishmen.
New York, D. Appleton & Co.:
1-345. Illus.
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Verne, Jules
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1875 |
The mysterious island.
New York, Scribner, Armstrong & Co.:
1-110. Illus.
–Includes a fanciful account of an encounter with a dugong.
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Verrill, Alpheus Hyatt
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1939 |
Strange animals and their stories. Animals in armor. The land of marsupials. Topsyturvy creatures. Behemoths of Scripture. Giants who took to the sea. Camels of the Andes. The strangest animal of all.
Boston, L. C. Page & Co.:
xiv + 235. Illus. Jan. 1939.
–Sirs., 113-115.
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Versaggi, Charles S.
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1977 |
Studies on the structure and function of bone in marine mammals [abstr.].
Science of Biol. Jour.
3(2): 305-306. Mar.-Apr. 1977.
–Mentions sirs. in passing (305) when noting resemblances in bone structure and physiology among secondarily marine vertebrates.
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Via Boada, Luis: SEE ALSO Crusafont-Pairó, M., 1973; Pilleri et al., 1989, 1990; Santafé & Via, 1985.
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Via Boada, Luis
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1950 |
Un monstruo marino en Vilafranca.
Acción Católica
(Vilafranca del Penedès, Spain)
No. 33 (Numero Extraord. Dedicado a la Fiesta Mayor de 1950): 8.
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Vialleton, L.
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1924 |
Mammifères pisciformes.In: Membres et ceintures des vertébrés Tétrapodes.
Paris, G. Doin:
372-395.
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Vianna, Juliana A.; Bonde, Robert K.; Caballero, Susana; Giraldo, Juan Pablo; Pinto de Lima, Régis; Clark, Annmarie; Marmontel, Miriam; Morales-Vela, Benjamín; Souza, Maria José de; Parr, Leslee; Rodríguez-Lopez, Marta A.; Mignucci-Giannoni, Antonio A.; Powell, James Arthur, Jr.; Santos, Fabrício R.
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2006 |
Phylogeography, phylogeny and hybridization in trichechid sirenians: implications for manatee conservation.
Molec. Ecol.
15: 433-447. 4 tabs. 4 figs.
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Viaud, Jean-Marc
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1979 |
Contribution à l'étude des dépôts tertiaires dans la région de Saint-Hilaire-de-Clisson (44).
Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Ouest France
(n.s.) 1(3): 146-162. 5 tabs. 4 figs. 6 pls. Sept. 1979.
–Mention of Halitherium.
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Vickers, Eddie D.
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1962 |
Notes on Miocene mammal remains in the Georgia-Florida district.
Georgia Mineral Newsletter
(Georgia Geol. Survey)
15(1-2): 28-29. 1 fig. Spring-Summer 1962.
–Records, with a generalized stratigraphic section, sir. rib fragments from fuller's earth mines in Grady and Decatur Counties, Georgia, and Gadsden County, Florida.
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Vidal, O.
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1993 |
Aquatic mammal conservation in Latin America: problems and perspectives.
Conserv. Biol.
7(4): 788-795. Illus. Dec. 1993.
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1735 |
Cartas do P. Antonio Vieyra da Companhia de Jesu Tomo Segundo....
Lisboa Occidental, Officina da Congregação do Oratorio:
[10] + 479.
–Pp. 25-26 (in "Carta II. A El Rey", dated at Maranhão, Brazil, Feb. 11, 1660; pp. 12-45): {"Chegou finalmente o anno passado de mil seis centos sincoenta e oito o Governador D. Pedro de Mello com as novas da guerra apregoada com os Ollandezes, com os quaes alguma das naçoens dos Nheengaîbas [26] ha muito tempo tinhão commercio, pela vizinhança dos seos portos com os do Cabo do Norte, em que todos os annos carregaõ de peyxe Boy mais de vinte navios de Ollanda...."}
This letter is the original source of the oft-quoted statement that in the 17th century "more than 20 Dutch ships" a year sailed from Brazil loaded with manatee meat. Their destination is not stated.
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Vieira, Carlos O. Da Cunha
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1949 |
Nova contribuição ao conhecimento dos mamíferos do Rio Juruá.
Bol. Mus. Paraense Emilio Goeldi
10: 239-274.
–Gives skull measurements of 2 young T. inunguis caught on the Rio Juruá near João Pessôa, Brazil, between July 1936 and Feb. 1937. Briefly summarizes the taxonomy of Trichechus, regarding T. senegalensis as a subspecies of T. manatus and coining for it the new combination T. manatus senegalensis (241, 268-269).
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Vieira, Carlos O. Da Cunha
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1955 |
Lista remissiva dos mamíferos do Brasil.
Arq. Zool.
(São Paulo)
8(11): 341-474.
–Lists T. inunguis (456) and T. m. manatus (457), with their synonyms and brief summaries of their distributions.
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Vieira, João Pedro Dias
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1856 |
Relatorio apresentado á Assembléa Legislativa Provincial ... no dia 8 de Julho de 1856....
Barra do Rio Negro [= Manaus, Brazil], Typ. de F. J. S. Ramos.
–Repr.: pp. 469-527 in collected Relatorios da Presidencia do Amazonas, 1852-1858, Rio de Janeiro, Typ. Universal de Laemmert, Dec. 1905. Statistics on manatee exploitation, 516, 517, 519 (of 1905 ed.).
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Vietmeyer, Noel D.
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1974a |
The endangered but useful manatee.
Smithsonian
5(9): 60-65. 6 figs. Dec. 1974.
–Pop. acc. of manatees, their use in weed control, and the manatee research center in Guyana, with photos of Florida manatees and Guyanese canals.
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Vietmeyer, Noel D.
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1974b |
A scheme to save the manatee. In: Proceedings of Symposium on endangered and threatened species of North America.
Washington, D.C., W.C.S.R.C. Wolf Sanctuary (St. Louis, Missouri):
219-221.
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Vietmeyer, Noel D.
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1975 |
The beautiful blue devil.
Nat. Hist.
(New York)
84(9): 64-73. 5 figs. Nov. 1975.
–Article on Eichhornia crassipes, mentioning manatees (71), with a photo of a manatee eating a water hyacinth (72-73).
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Viguier, Maurice-Gabriel
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1892 |
Pliocène des environs de Montpellier.
C.R. Assoc. Franç. Avanc. Sci.
20(2): 405-416. Tabs. 1 fig.
–Mentions Halitherium sp.
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Villa-Ramírez, Bernardo; Colmenero-Rolón, Luz del Carmen
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1981 |
Presencia y distribución de los manatíes o tlacamichin, Trichechus manatus Linneo 1782, en México.
An. Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. Autón. México (Ser. Zool.)
51(1): 703-707. 1 tab. 2 figs. Dec. 28, 1981.
–Briefly summarizes manatee distribution records obtained in a questionnaire, interview, and aerial survey of southeastern Mexico. The term "tlacamichin" is not explained.
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Vincent, Thierry
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1996 |
[Occurrence of a dugong, Dugong dugon (Mueller, 1776) (Mammalia, Sirenia, Dugongidae) in October 1994, near Hurghada (Egypt) in the Red Sea.]
Ann. Inst. Oceanographique
72(2): 179-183.
–In French; Engl. summ.
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Viret, Jean
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1955 |
Siréniens (fossiles). In: P.-P. Grassé (ed.), Traité de Zoologie.
Paris, Masson & Cie:
Vol. 17(1): 993-1001. Figs. 953-960.
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Vogt, C.; Specht, F.
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1883 |
Die Säugetiere in Wort und Bild.
Munich.
–Manatee illustration, reproduced by Matthies (1994).
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Voisin, Marie Estelle
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2008 |
Mieux connaître le lamantin ouest africain Trichechus senegalensis.
[Dakar?], Wetlands International/Programme Régional de Conservation de la Zone Côtiere et Marine en Afrique de l'Ouest (PRCM):
[1]-19. Illus.
–Colorful and informative paperback booklet for primary-school children.
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Vondra, Carl F.
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1974 |
Upper Eocene transitional and near-shore marine Qasr el Sagha Formation, Fayum Depression, Egypt.
Ann. Geol. Surv. Egypt
4: 79-94. 6 figs.
–Notes the stratigraphic occurrence of sirs. in the Fayum (83-84).
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Voorhies, Michael R.
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1969 |
An Eocene sea cow tooth from Twiggs County, Georgia. [Abstr.]
Bull. Georgia Acad. Sci.
27(2): 93-94. Apr. 1969.
–Reports a lower molar from the Upper Eocene Ocala Formation, and states incorrectly that it was "the first Eocene sirenian known from the United States." In the end it turned out not even to be a sir., but rather an entelodont (see Domning, Morgan & Ray, 1982: 3).
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Voorhies, Michael R.
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1973 |
Vertebrate fossils of coastal Georgia; a field geologist's guide.
Georgia Geol. Soc. Guidebook
No. 8: 81-102.
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Voorhies, Michael R.
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1974 |
Late Miocene terrestrial mammals, Echols County, Georgia.
Southeast. Geol.
15(4): 223-235. 9 figs. Apr. 1974.
–Reports sir. rib fragments associated with Barstovian land mammals in the Statenville Local Fauna (228).
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Vorontsov, N. N.
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1973 |
Pochemu morskaya korova sokhranyalas' na Komandorakh? [Why had the sea cow persisted in the Commander Islands?]
Priroda
1973(11): 124. Nov. 1973.
–In Russian. Concludes that Hydrodamalis formerly inhabited the entire North Pacific littoral, and was exterminated by aboriginal hunters everywhere but in the Commander Islands, which humans had not reached.
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Vorontsov, N. N.
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1988 |
[Macromutation and evolution: the fixation of Goldschmidt's macromutation as species and genus traits. Hairlessness mutations in mammals.]
Genetika
24(6): 1081-1088. June 1988.
–In Russian.
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Voss (Voß), Manja
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2008 |
New finds of Halitherium (Sirenia, Mammalia) from the lower Oligocene of the Rhine area, Germany.
Neues Jb. Geol. Pal. Abh.
249(3): 257-269. 2 tabs. 10 figs. Sept. 2008.
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Voss (Voß), Manja
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2011 |
A new sea cow record from the lower Oligocene of western Germany: new indications on the skeletal morphology of Halitherium schinzii (Mammalia: Sirenia).
Paläontol Z:
13 pp. 10 figs. DOI: 10.1007/s12542-011-0125-x. Published online Nov. 19, 2011.
–German summ.
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Vosseler, J.
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1907 |
Aus dem Leben ostafrikanischer Säuger.
Zool. Beob.
48: 225-241.
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Vosseler, J.
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Pflege und Haltung der Seekühe (Trichechus) nebst Beiträgen zu ihrer Biologie.
Pallasia
(Dresden)
2(2): 58-67, 113-133, pls. 5-6; 2(3): 167-180, 213-230, 2 tabs. 2 figs.
–Perhaps the most elaborate anecdotal account of the captive biology of sirs. yet written. After listing and discussing 24 instances of manatees kept in captivity (59-63), Vosseler describes the capture and transport of two T. inunguis from Brazil to Germany, and gives detailed advice on transporting manatees by sea and land (63-67, 113-114). He then describes many aspects of the biology and life in captivity of the two Amazonian specimens in Hamburg, including: captive conditions (114-119), feeding (including coprophagy and eating meat and fish) and defecation (119-129), illnesses (129-133), growth and external measurements (167-173), supposed sexual dimorphism of the tail, flipper, and head (173-175), sexual behavior (175-180), characteristics of the epidermis (213-217), experiments on their senses of taste and smell (217-220), appearance of their eyes (220), hearing (220-221), movements, breathing, sleep, and locomotion on land (221-225). (Their subsequent fatal illnesses are described in Vosseler, 1930.) Notes that their feeding and activity are not exclusively nocturnal (226), and that manatees are compatible with other species in zoo exhibits (227); extols the value of sirs. to zoos and the relative ease of keeping them (228-230).
Finally and most unexpectedly, this work includes some (rather insignificant) observations and remarks on Dugong in German East Africa and the author's unsuccessful attempts to determine whether they use their tusks in feeding (225-226).
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Vosseler, J.
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1930 |
Krankheit und Tod des Hamburger Sirenenpaares.
Zs. Säugetierk.
5(6): 362-364. Dec. 22, 1930.
–Reports the deaths of a long-captive pair of T. inunguis from enteritis and fungal infection, ascribed to an accidental change in water temperature.
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Vrolik, Willem Th.
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1852 |
Bijdrage tot de natuur- en ontleedkundige kennis van den Manatus Americanus.
Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde
(Amsterdam, Koninklijk Zoologisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra)
Afl. 4, D. 1, Afd. 2 [?]: 53-80. 6 pls.
–Publ. 1851? Detailed account of the external morphology, osteology, dentition, digestive tract, heart, larynx, penis, and other organs of T. manatus.
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Vúletin, Alberto
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1960 |
Zoonimia Andina (nomenclador zoológico).
Publ. Univ. Nac. de Tucumán, Fac. Filos. y Letras, Inst. Ling. Folklore y Arq.
(Santiago del Estero, Argentina)
No. 807: 1-204. 28 figs. 1 map. Nov. 14, 1960.
–Brief gen. acc. of T. manatus, the use of its meat and hide, the origin of the name "manatí", and its occurrence in the Rio Orinoco and Lake Maracaibo; also indicates (possibly by a misprint) that it is found on "the coasts of Chile" (124).
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Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia 