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Suborder IT. SIRENIA. 



Body rather hairy. Muzzle bristly. Nostrils 2, separate, apical, 

 lunate, valvular. Fore limbs arm-like, clawed ; hinder compressed, 

 expanded, taQ-like. Teats 2, pectoral. Teeth of two kinds. 



Cete II. (pars), Gray, Ann. riiil. 1825. 



(Natantia) Sirenia, Illiger, Prodr. 139, 1811 ; Brandt, Symh. Sireno- 



logia, 132, 1846. 

 Sirenia, Ch-ay, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 138 ; P. Z. S. 1864, 247 ; Selys-Long- 



cJiamps, 1842 ; Schinz, Maimn. 491. 

 Mammiferes amphibies (pars), Cuvier, Tab. Elem. 1798; Dum. Z. 



Anal. 1806. 

 Mammalia amphibia (pars), Bafin. Anal. Nat. 60, 1815. 

 OnguligTades anomaux, Blainv. 1816. 

 Les Cdtaces herbivores, F. Cuv. 1829. 

 Cetacea herbivora, Gray, Bond. Med. Bep. xv. 309, 1821 ; Latr. Fam. 



Nat. 1825, 64 ; Brandt, Mem. Acad. Petersh. 1833, 103. 

 Cete anomala, Fischer, Sr/n. Mamm. 1828. 

 Ceti hydr£eoglossi, § a, Wagler, N. S. Amph. 32, 1830. 

 Heterodonta, Ilydraula, on Sirenise, Lesson, N. Beg. Anim. 134, 1842. 

 Manatina, Beich. Syn. Mamm. Cetac. 15. 

 Tricheche, Oken, Lehrb. Nat. 684. 

 Pachydermata (part), Agassis, Proc. Boston Soc. N. H. iii. 209, 1850 ; 



Knechiitd, Proc. Amcr. Journ. Agr. and Sci. 1851, 42. 

 GravigTadi'S, lllainriUc, Osteograph. 

 Phytophaga sou ex spiraculis, J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 40. 

 Manatida3 sen Mastothoracea, J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 40. 

 Amphibies triremes, Duvernoy, Tab. Anim. Verteb. 

 Sirense, Biijjpell, Verz. Senck. Samml. 186, 1845. 

 Quadrupeda, s. Tetrapoda, Nectopoda, et Pinnipeda (part.), G. Fischer, 



Zoognosia, 15. 



Fam. 9. MANATID^. 



Muzzle bristly ; lips single ; front of upper and lower jaws each 

 covered with a hard, horny, porous, corrugated plate. Cutting-teeth 

 2 or 4 above, large, conical, and exserted, or small, abortive, and 

 early deciduous.' Canine none. Grinders f . f to f . f , tubercular, 

 the front one deciduous. Nostiils 2, separate, lunate, valvular. 

 Eyes s«R«H, ears none. Teats 2, pectoral. Stomach divided into 

 four cells, two of them appendaged. 



Sirenia, Illiger, Prodr. Mamm. 181. 



Manatida) et Dugongidaj, Gray, L. Med. Bep. xv. 309, 1821 ; Ann. 



Phil. 1825. 

 Tricheeus (pars), Cuv. Tab. Elem. 1798. 

 ManatidiB (pars), Selys-Longchamps, 1842. 

 Ilalicoridffi, Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825 ; List Mamm. B. M. 106. 

 Sirenia deutigera seu Halicoreaj, et Sirenia edentata seu Rhytinise, 



Brandt, Symb. Sirenol. 132, 1846. 

 Amphibia tetrapia Odobenia, Amphibia Diopia, Bajm. Anal. Nat. 



60, 1815. 

 Sirenise (pars). Lesson, N. Big. Anim. 154. 





