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x Scammon, Charles Melville
  1889
The sea-cow.
Overland Monthly (2)14(84): 581-585. 2 figs. Dec. 1889.
–Pop. acc. of Florida manatees (581-582), including observations of two kept in Key West, and of Steller's sea cow (582-585), the latter mostly made up of quotations from Müller and Steller and illustrated with a figure of a manatee.

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x  1889Scammon, C.M. (TML; Key West; 581-582.)
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x  1889Scammon, C.M. (Trichechus; in capt.; 582.)
Hydrodamalis gigas (Zimmermann, 1780) Palmer, 1895
xv 1889Scammon, C.M. (gen. acc.; 582-585.)
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x  1889Scammon, C.M. (TML; in capt.; 581-582.)
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xv 1889Scammon, C.M. (in capt., Key West; pop. acc.; 581-582.)