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1800. Manatus stroggylonurus Bechstein, idem. The name was proposed for Pen- 

 nant's "Round-tailed manatee," for which Link's name is already avail- 

 able. 



1800. Trichechus Clusii Shaw, 'General Zoology,' I, part 1, p. 246. Based on Clu- 

 sius's figure and description of a West Indian manatee, therefore a 

 synonym of Trichechus manatus Linnaeus. Its type locality may be 

 given as the West Indies. 



1800. Trichechus A mazonius Shaw, ' General Zoology,' loc. cit. Based on the reports 

 of manatees in South American rivers, and referred to Pennant's "Orino- 

 ko manatee." Pennant specified that this was Buffon's 'Le Petit 

 Lamantin de l'Amerique,' but Buffon, Pennant, and Shaw failed to 

 define their animal clearly and confused the West Indian and the true 

 river manatees. By reason of the foundation of the species, and despite 

 the name, I designate the type locality as "West Indies," so that current 

 nomenclature may not be unnecessarily disturbed. 



1802. 1 Manatus minor Daudin, 'Histoire Naturelle' of Buffon, Didot Edition, 

 'Quadrupeds,' XIV, p. 194. Stated to be 'Le Petit Lamantin d'Amer- 

 ique' and correctly referred to the account in Vol. IX, p. 251. 

 This name has then the same status as americanus Link. I hereby fix the 

 type locality as "West Indies." 



1815. Manatus fluviatilis Illiger, Abhandl. d. Kon. Akad. d. Wissens. in Berlin, 

 1809-1811, p. 110. This name, given without diagnosis, appears with M. 

 americanus in a list of South American mammals and is a nomen nudum. 



1815. Manatus sphaerurus Illiger, op. cit., p. 79. The name appears together with 



Halicore cetacea in a list of African mammals. No diagnosis is given it, 

 and it is therefore a nomen nudum. 



1816. T[richechus], M[anatus] africanus Oken, 'Lehrbuch der Naturgesch.,' Th. Ill, 



Abt. II, p. 688. A short diagnosis is given, and the presence of the 

 species in Senegal and the Congo is noted. The type locality I here 

 designate as Senegal. 



1824. Manatus latirostris Harlan, Journ. Acad. Sci., Philadelphia, III, p. 394. 

 The name was tentatively proposed for the manatee from the coast of 

 eastern Florida if this should later prove distinct from senegalensis. A 

 description based on two skulls is given. Presumably these are in the 

 museum of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. 



1838. Manatus atlanticus Oken, 'Allgemeine Naturgeschichte,' Abt. II, Band VII, 

 p. 1098. The name is applied to both American and African manatees, 

 followed immediately by the name Trichechus manatus. I propose the 

 West Indies as its type locality. 



1848. Manatus nasutus Wyman, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., II, p. 199. The name 

 is proposed in a footnote (signed "J. W.") to an article by G. A. Perkins, 

 describing a specimen from the Caracalla River, twenty miles east of 

 Cape Palmas, Ivory Coast. The specimen on which the original descrip- 

 tion is assumed to have been based is at present in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology. 



J For the establishment of 1802 as the publication date of Lacepede's and Daudin's 'Tableaux,' 

 see C. Davies Sherborn, 1899, 'Natural Science,' XV, pp. 406-409. 



