Palmer, T. S.

3 publications

Palmer, T. S. (detail)
1895The earliest name for Steller's sea cow and dugong.
Science (2)2(40): 449-450. Oct. 4, 1895.
—Notes the priority of the names Hydrodamalis Retzius and Dugong Lacépède over Rytina and Halicore, respectively; recognizes the specific names Hydrodamalis gigas and Dugong dugon; and proposes that the family names be changed to Hydrodamalidae and Dugongidae.
Palmer, T. S. (detail)
1899[Review of Dr. E. L. Trouessart's Catalogus Mammalium.]
Science (2)10: 491-495.
—Corrects Trouessart's use of the names Manatus, Halicore, and Rhytina to Trichechus, Dugong, and Hydrodamalis, respectively, and proposes the new name Eotheroides to replace the preoccupied name Eotherium Owen, 1875 (494).
Palmer, T. S. (detail)
1904Index generum mammalium. A list of the genera and families of mammals.
North Amer. Fauna No. 23: 1-984.
—Sirs. and desmostylians, 224, 398, 904.