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Trichechinae
Taxonomy
Trichechidae was named by Gray (1825). It is extant.
It was synonymized subjectively with Rosmaridae by Gill (1866); it was synonymized subjectively with Odobaenidae by Allen (1880); it was synonymized subjectively with Odobenidae by Hay (1902), Weber (1928) and McKenna and Bell (1997); it was reranked as the family Trichechinae by Gray (1866), Domning (1994), Voss (2014) and Domning (2018).
It was assigned to Cetae by Gray (1825); to Phocidae by Gray (1866); to Pinnipedia by Ameghino (1889); to Pinnipedia by Bonaparte (1850), Gray (1871), Flower (1883), Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904); to Phocidi by Jaekel (1911); to Pinnipedia by Lydekker (1885), Flower and Lydekker (1891) and Zittel (1925); and to Trichechidae by Domning (1994), Voss (2014) and Domning (2018).
It was synonymized subjectively with Rosmaridae by Gill (1866); it was synonymized subjectively with Odobaenidae by Allen (1880); it was synonymized subjectively with Odobenidae by Hay (1902), Weber (1928) and McKenna and Bell (1997); it was reranked as the family Trichechinae by Gray (1866), Domning (1994), Voss (2014) and Domning (2018).
It was assigned to Cetae by Gray (1825); to Phocidae by Gray (1866); to Pinnipedia by Ameghino (1889); to Pinnipedia by Bonaparte (1850), Gray (1871), Flower (1883), Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904); to Phocidi by Jaekel (1911); to Pinnipedia by Lydekker (1885), Flower and Lydekker (1891) and Zittel (1925); and to Trichechidae by Domning (1994), Voss (2014) and Domning (2018).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1825 | Trichechidae Gray p. 340 |
| 1850 | Trichechidae Bonaparte p. 1 |
| 1866 | Trichechinae Gray p. 31 |
| 1871 | Trichechidae Gray p. 4 |
| 1883 | Trichechidae Flower p. 185 |
| 1885 | Trichechidae Lydekker p. 197 |
| 1889 | Trichechidae Ameghino p. 342 |
| 1891 | Trichechidae Flower and Lydekker p. 91 |
| 1898 | Trichecidae Trouessart p. 375 |
| 1904 | Trichechidae Trouessart p. 281 |
| 1911 | Trichechidae Jaekel p. 229 |
| 1925 | Trichechidae Zittel p. 78 |
| 1994 | Trichechinae Domning p. 189 |
| 2014 | Trichechinae Voss p. 91 figs. Figure 3 |
| 2018 | Trichechinae Domning p. 857 figs. Fig. 1 |
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Fm. Trichechinae Gray 1825
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G. †Potamosiren Reinhart 1951
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†Potamosiren magdalenensis Savage 1951
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Invalid names: Metaxytherium ortegense Kellogg 1966 [synonym]
G. Trichechus Linnaeus 1758 [manatee]
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†Trichechus hesperamazonicus Perini et al. 2020
Trichechus inunguis Natterer 1883 [Amazonian manatee]
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus 1758
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†Trichechus manatus bakerorum Domning 2005
Trichechus manatus latirostris Harlan 1824
Invalid names: Manatus americanus De Kay 1842 [synonym], Manatus australis Retzius 1794 [synonym], Manatus koellikeri Trouessart 1904 [synonym]
Trichechus manatus manatus Linnaeus 1758
Trichechus senegalensis Link 1795 [West African manatee]
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Invalid names: Manatus senegalensis Desmarest 1817 [synonym]
Invalid names: Halipaedisca Gistel 1848 [synonym], Manatus Brunnich 1772 [synonym], Neodermus Rafinesque 1815 [synonym], Oxystomus Fischer von Waldheim 1803 [synonym]
Invalid names: Trichechina Bonaparte 1850 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available