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ORDER SIRENIA
| Author: | Illiger, 1811. | | Comments: | Traditionally (since Illiger, 1811) the category or rank of "Order" has been used for Sirenia. In 1997 McKenna and Bell, following cladistic classification, proposed a new category – "Infraorder" for Sirenia, in the "Suborder" Tethytheria McKenna, 1975, "Order" Uranotheria McKenna and Bell, 1997. For ‘stability’ I retained the ordinal category, even though infraorder category conveys a cladistic message. For thorough index, complete synonymy, and bibliography of Sirenia, see Domning (1996). |
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Halobioidea Ameghino, 1889
Herbivorae Gray, 1821
Phycoceta Haeckel, 1866
Sirenoidea van Beneden, 1855
Sireniformes Kinman, 1994
Trichechiformes Hay, 1923
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