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  Owen, Richard
  1838b
Fossil Marsupialia from the caves of Wellington Valley. In: T. L. Mitchell, Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia, with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales.
London, publ. by the author (Vol. 2: viii + 405. Illus.): 368-369.
–Considers Diprotodon "a dugong"?

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Anatomy
(SEE ALSO: Brain and Nervous System; Circulatory System; Digestive System; Embryology; Endocrinology; Growth Rates; Histology; Myology; Pathology; Respiratory System; Skeleton; Urogenital System; and under species)
x *1838aOwen, R. (DD, etc.; skeleton & viscera; 28-45.)
Circulatory System
x *1838aOwen, R. (DD; 34-36.)
Digestive System
(SEE ALSO: Excretion and Defecation; Food; Mastication; Parasites; Parasitology; Sense Organs)
x *1838aOwen, R. (DD & other sirs.; 29-34.)
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
xv*1838aOwen, R. (anatomy of viscera & skeleton; 28-45.)
Endocrinology
x  1838aOwen, R. (DD; location of thyroid gland; 38.)
Halicore tabernaculi Rüppell, 1834
x  1838aOwen, R. (heart, m35; skeleton, 41.)
Individual Variation
(SEE ALSO: Skeleton)
x *1838aOwen, R. (DD; viscera, m29-31, 34, m37; skeleton, 40; teeth, 43; measurements, 44-45.)
Manatus americanus (Link, 1795) Illiger, 1815
x  1838aOwen, R. (cecum, m32; gall bladder, m34; heart, m35; lungs, m36; kidneys, 39.)
Myology
x  1838aOwen, R. (DD; visceral muscles, 30-33; heart, 35; larynx, 38; genital organs, 40.)
Parasites: Ascaris Linnaeus, 1758
x  1838aOwen, R. (DD; cardiac gland; 30.)
Phylogeny and Affinities of the Sirenia and/or Desmostylia
(SEE ALSO under species)
x  1838aOwen, R. (sirs. considered not cetaceans but closer to pachyderms; 44-45.)
Respiratory System
x *1838aOwen, R. (DD; 36-39.)
Skeleton
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
x *1838aOwen, R. (DD; ossification of throat cartilages, m37; bones, 40-41; teeth, 41-44.)
Stellerus borealis (Gmelin, 1788) Desmarest, 1822
x  1838aOwen, R. (cecum, m32; lack of gall bladder, m34; heart, m35; lungs, m36; kidney, m39.)
Tooth Replacement
x  1838aOwen, R. (DD; 42-44.)
Urogenital System
(SEE ALSO: Excretion and Defecation)
x  1838aOwen, R. (DD, etc.; 39-40.)