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  Blainville, Henri Marie Ducrotay de
  1844
Ostéographie ou description iconographique comparée du squelette et du système dentaire des mammifères récent et fossiles pour servir de base à la zoologie et à la geologie. [Livr. 15] Des lamantins (Buffon), (Manatus, Scopoli), ou gravigrades aquatiques.
Paris, Arthus Bertrand (4 vols. + 4 vol. atlas): Vol. 3, Livr. 15: 1-140. 11 pls. (in folio atlas).
–A major contribution to knowledge of the osteology of Recent and fossil sirs., and likewise valuable for its detailed analysis of previous work on sirs. and their relationships. Blainville concluded decisively and correctly that sirs. are not cetaceans, but rather "Gravigrades aquatiques", related to the elephants. He also, however, cluttered nomenclature with many new combinations created in the course of lumping all known sirs. into the single genus Manatus.

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  *1844Blainville, H.M.D. de (name introduced; lapsus for C. subapenninum)
Manatus brocchii (de Blainville, 1844) de Blainville, 1844
  *1844Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.comb.)
Manatus christolii (Fitzinger, 1842) de Blainville, 1844
  *1844Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.comb.)
Manatus cuvieri (de Christol, 1832) de Blainville, 1844
  *1844Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.comb.)
Manatus dubius (Cuvier, 1824) de Blainville, 1844
  *1844Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.comb.)
Manatus dugung (Erxleben, 1777) de Blainville, 1844
  *1844Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.comb.)
Manatus guettardi de Blainville, 1844
  *1844Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.sp.)
Manatus indicus (Boddaert, 1785) Daudin, 1802
   1844Blainville, H.M.D. de
Manatus maeoticus Eichwald, 1850
 v 1844Blainville, H.M.D. de
Manatus schinzii (Kaup, 1838) de Blainville, 1844
  *1844Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.comb.)
Manatus tabernaculi (Rüppell, 1834) de Blainville, 1844
  *1844Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.comb.)
Metaxytherium beaumonti de Christol in de Blainville, 1844
  *1844Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.sp.)
Metaxytherium cordieri de Christol in de Blainville, 1844
  *1844Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.sp.)
Metaxytherium cuvierii (de Christol, 1832) de Christol in de Blainville, 1844
  *1844Blainville, H.M.D. de (n.sp.)