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Hydrodamalis gigas (Steller's sea cow)

Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae

Taxonomy
Manati gigas was named by Zimmermann (1780) [No type specimen has been designated (Domning, 1996).]. Its type specimen is none designated and is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Rytina gigas by Gray (1850) and Gray (1866); it was recombined as Rhytina gigas by Woodward (1885), Lydekker (1887), Trouessart (1898) and Abel (1904); it was recombined as Manatus gigas by Lucas (1891); it was recombined as Hydrodamalis gigas by Palmer (1895), Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Domning (1978), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Forsten and Youngman (1982), Furusawa and Kohno (1994), Domning (1994), Domning (1996), Rice (1998), Furusawa (2005), Domning (2008) and Voss (2014).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1780Manati gigas Zimmermann p. 426
1785Manati balaenurus Boddaert p. 173
1794Hydrodamalis stelleri Retzius p. 292
1800Rytina balaenurus Bechstein p. 732
1814Nepus stelleri Fischer von Waldheim p. 641
1815Rytina cetacea Illiger p. 68
1829Rytina stelleri Fischer p. 504
1837Rhytine stelleri Burmeister p. 793
1849Rhytina borealis Brandt
1849Rhytina stellerus Brandt p. 2
1850Rytina gigas Gray p. 144
1866Rytina gigas Gray p. 365
1885Rhytina gigas Woodward p. 425
1887Rhytina gigas Lydekker p. 15
1891Manatus gigas Lucas p. 623
1895Hydrodamalis gigas Palmer p. 449
1898Rhytina gigas Trouessart p. 1008
1902Hydrodamalis gigas Hay p. 584
1904Rhytina gigas Abel p. 215
1912Rhytina stelleri Turner p. 158
1925Rhytina stelleri Zittel p. 266
1930Hydrodamalis gigas Hay p. 657
1963Hydrodamalis gigas Scheffer and Rice p. 4
1978Hydrodamalis gigas Domning
1980Hydrodamalis gigas Kurten and Anderson p. 340
1982Hydrodamalis gigas Forsten and Youngman
1994Hydrodamalis gigas Domning p. 189
1994Hydrodamalis gigas Furusawa and Kohno p. 27
1996Hydrodamalis gigas Domning p. 390
1998Hydrodamalis gigas Rice p. 132
2005Hydrodamalis gigas Furusawa p. 31
2008Hydrodamalis gigas Domning p. 528
2014Hydrodamalis gigas Voss p. 91 figs. Figure 3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
RankNameAuthor
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
Tethytheria
orderSirenia()
familyDugongidae
subfamilyHydrodamalinae()
genusHydrodamalis
speciesgigas()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Hydrodamalis gigas Zimmermann 1780 [Steller's sea cow]
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Invalid names: Hydrodamalis stelleri Retzius 1794 [synonym], Manati balaenurus Boddaert 1785 [synonym], Rhytina borealis Brandt 1849 [synonym], Rhytina stellerus Brandt 1849 [synonym], Rytina cetacea Illiger 1815 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available