WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Manati gigas Zimmermann, 1780) Zimmermann, Eberhard August Wilhelm von. (1780). Geographische Geschichte des Menschen, und der vierfuessigen Thiere. Zweiter Band. Enthaelt ein vollstaendiges Verzeichniss aller bekannten Quadrupeden. 1-432. Leipzig, Weygandschen Buchhandlung., available online at https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN577848003 [details]
basis of record
Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. <em>In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp.</em> 723--743., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]
additional source
Domning, D. P. (1996). Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology.</em> (80): 1-611., available online at http://www.sil.si.edu/SmithsonianContributions/Paleobiology/sc_RecordSingle.cfm?filename=SCtP-0080 [details]
From other sources
IUCN Red List Category extinct [details]
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English |
Steller's sea cow |
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