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GENUS Hydrodamalis

Author:Retzius, 1794.
Citation:K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. Stockholm, 15: 292.
Type Species:Hydrodamalis Stelleri Retzius, 1794 (= Manati gigas Zimmermann, 1780).
Comments:See Domning (1978, 1996), McKenna and Bell (1997). Rhytina Berthold, 1827 is an unjustified emendation of Rytina Illiger, and Rhytine Burmeister, 1837 is an emendation of Rhytina.
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SPECIES gigas

Synonyms:

    Haligyna Billberg, 1827
    Manati Zimmermann, 1780
    Nepus Fischer von Waldheim, 1814
    Rytina Illiger, 1811
    Sirene Link, 1794
    Stellera Bowdich, 1821
    Stellerus Desmarest, 1822

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