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x Sowerby, Arthur de Carle
  1923
The naturalist in Manchuria. Vol. II: The mammals and birds of Manchuria.
Tientsin, Tientsin Press (5 vols., 1922-30): xxvii + 191.
–Gen. acc. of Steller's sea cow (135-137). Refers to Arthur Adams' (1870) finding of a "dugong" skull in Saghalien; suggests that it was actually a skull of Hydrodamalis and an indication of that animal's survival after 1768 (136-137). This seems unlikely (see Domning, 1978b: 138).

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Halicore australis (Retzius, 1794) Owen, 1847
x  1923Sowerby, A. de C. (m135.)
Halicore dugong (Gmelin, 1788) Illiger, 1811
x  1923Sowerby, A. de C. (m135.)
Hydrodamalis stelleri Retzius, 1794
x  1923Sowerby, A. de C. (gen. acc.; 135-137.)
Manati gigas Zimmermann, 1780
x  1923Sowerby, A. de C. (syn. of Rhytina gigas; m136.)
Manatus americanus (Link, 1795) Illiger, 1815
x  1923Sowerby, A. de C. (m135.)
Manatus senegalensis Desmarest, 1817
x  1923Sowerby, A. de C. (m135.)
Pacific Ocean
(SEE ALSO: East Indies; Palau; circumpacific regions)
x  1923Sowerby, A. de C. (HG; distr.; 136-137.)
Rytina gigas (Zimmermann, 1780) Gray, 1850
x  1923Sowerby, A. de C. ("Rhytina"; gen. acc.; 135-137.)
Sakhalin
x  1923Sowerby, A. de C. ("dugong" of Adams [1870] probably Hydrodamalis; 136-137.)