Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia 
Bibliography Record
| x | Home, Everard | ||
| 1821b | On the peculiarities that distinguish the manatee of the West Indies from the dugong of the East Indian seas. Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. London 111(2)(Art. 26): 390-391. Pls. 26-29. Read July 12, 1821. –German ?transl.: Froriep's Notizen 2: 260-261, June 1822 (Allen 614). Comments on the anatomy of the manatee in comparison with the dugong; the plates show a female Jamaican manatee, its skeleton, stomach, and cecum. The fig. of the entire animal is reproduced by Durand (1983: 182-183), who calls it "la primera figura exacta" of a manatee. | ||
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Digestive System
(SEE ALSO: Excretion and Defecation; Food; Mastication; Parasites; Parasitology; Sense Organs)
(SEE ALSO: Excretion and Defecation; Food; Mastication; Parasites; Parasitology; Sense Organs)
| x | 1821b | Home, E. (Trichechus comp. w/ DD; 391, pls. 28-29.) |
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
| x | v | 1821a | Home, E. (Sumatra; skeleton; 268-270, pl. 20.) | |
| x | v | 1821b | Home, E. (comp. w/ Trichechus; 390-391.) |
East Indies
(SEE ALSO: Asia; Australia; Indian Ocean; Pacific Ocean; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Philippine Islands)
(SEE ALSO: Asia; Australia; Indian Ocean; Pacific Ocean; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Philippine Islands)
| x | 1821a | Home, E. (DD; Sumatra; m268.) |
Food
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive; Captivity, Sirenians in; Digestive System; Food Plants; Weed Control) (NOTE: Plants reported as part of the captive but not the natural diet of sirs. will not necessarily be found under Food Plants. Papers referring to them are, however, indexed here.)
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive; Captivity, Sirenians in; Digestive System; Food Plants; Weed Control) (NOTE: Plants reported as part of the captive but not the natural diet of sirs. will not necessarily be found under Food Plants. Papers referring to them are, however, indexed here.)
| x | 1821b | Home, E. (DD; "fuci" in stomach; 391.) |
Jamaica
| x | 1821b | Home, E. (TMM; m390.) |
Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
| x | 1821a | Home, E. (DD; hydrostasis; 269-270.) |
Skeleton
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
| x | 1821a | Home, E. (DD; Sumatra; 268-270, pl. 20.) | ||
| x | 1821b | Home, E. (TMM; Jamaica; 390-391, pl. 27.) |
Trichechus manatus manatus Linnaeus, 1758, Hatt, 1934
| x | v | 1821b | Home, E. (Jamaica; comp. w/ DD; 390-391, pls. 26-29.) |