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APPENDIX 1 - Serial Publications Devoted to Sirenia

APPENDIX 1 - Serial Publications Devoted to Sirenia


Dugong Newsletter. One number only; 1979. 9 pp.

Created as a result of a workshop on dugong conservation held at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia, in May 1979. Edited by Helene Marsh, this newsletter was intended to appear two or three times a year, but was not continued.

Florida Conservation News.

Formerly published by the Florida Department of Natural Resources, Tallahassee. Two issues are largely devoted to sirenians:

Vol. 15, No. 2 (Nov. 1979): Contains the articles listed in this bibliography as Oberheu & Prather, 1979; Willis, C., 1979; Asper, E.D., 1979; and Anon., 1979b; together with proclamations of "Manatee Awareness Month" (November) by Elton J. Gissendanner (p. 2) and Governor Bob Graham (p. 20), and several unsigned short notices relating to manatee conservation in Florida.

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APPENDIX 2 - Some Additional Sources for the History of Sirenology and Sirenian Conservation

APPENDIX 2 - Some Additional Sources for the History of Sirenology and Sirenian Conservation


Apart from the information found in the primary literature itself, a good many scraps of data bearing on government agencies, individual researchers, and their work can be gleaned from publications of a more ephemeral sort. These include notices and reports of research in progress and other sirenian-related news scattered through the sirenian newsletters (see Appendix 1, above) and other publications such as the following:

Administration of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (published annually by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Dept. of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1973- )

Alerta Neptuno (newsletter of the Caribbean Stranding Network, Puerto Rico, published in Spanish, 1993- )

Annual Progress Report for the Florida Manatee Recovery Plan (published annually by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Jacksonville Field Office with the cooperation of the Florida Manatee Recovery Team, Jacksonville, Fla., 1992- ); title later changed to Florida Manatee Recovery Accomplishments 1997 [et seq.] Annual Report

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APPENDIX 3 - Coins and Postage Stamps Depicting Sirenians

APPENDIX 3 - Coins and Postage Stamps Depicting Sirenians


The following are the only coins of which I am aware that depict sirenians. The catalog numbers at the left are from the Standard Catalog of World Coins (Krause and Mishler).

BRAZIL

KM 623 100 cruzeiros (stainless steel): manatee. 1992-93.

COSTA RICA

KM 201, 100 colones (silver): manatee. 1974. 201a

GUYANA

KM 37 1 cent (nickel-brass): manatee. 1976-80.

MALAYSIA

KM 105 25 sen (copper): dugong. 2006.

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APPENDIX 4 - Classification and Synonymy of the Sirenia and Desmostylia

APPENDIX 4 - Classification and Synonymy of the Sirenia and Desmostylia


The following compilation encapsulates the nomenclatural history of the Sirenia and Desmostylia as comprehensively as I have been able to trace it. Included are all known formal names of taxa and their synonyms and variant combinations, with abbreviated citations of the references where these first appeared and their dates of publication; statements of the designated or inferred types of these taxa and their provenances; and comments on the nomenclatural status of these names. Instances of the use of names or combinations subsequent to their original publication are, however, not listed. Of course, the choices of which taxa to recognize as valid and their proper arrangement reflect my own current views. This arrangement is outlined immediately hereafter to aid in finding taxa in this section. (Note that not all taxa in this summary list are necessarily valid; several are probable synonyms but have not been formally synonymized.) For a quick-reference summary of the names now in use for the Recent species of sirenians, see Appendix 5.

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APPENDIX 5 - Summary of the Nomenclature of the Recent Species of Sirenians

APPENDIX 5 - Summary of the Nomenclature of the Recent Species of Sirenians


The following list gives the correct scientific names presently in use for the subspecies, species, and higher taxonomic categories of sirenians that have lived in historic times, together with their authors and dates cited in the format specified by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. In non-taxonomic scientific writing as well as in popular works, the citations of author and date after the name itself may be, and usually are, omitted. For fuller citations of authorship, see Appendix 4. Also included are the proper English vernacular equivalents for the scientific names [in square brackets], and the International Species Inventory System (ISIS) numbers for the living species (these are used in a computerized monitoring system for zoo animals).

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APPENDIX 6 - Alphabetical List of Species-Group Names of Sirenians and Desmostylians

APPENDIX 6 - Alphabetical List of Species-Group Names of Sirenians and Desmostylians


The following lists all genera to which each nominal species or subspecies of supposed sirenian or desmostylian has been referred. To determine whether a given combination is presently regarded as a synonym of another name, see the headings in the main Index. For each nominal species here considered valid or possibly valid, the genus to which it is here referred is marked by an asterisk (*), and the ending of the specific name (if variable) is made to agree in gender with that generic name. For full synonymies, with citations of the publications in which each name and combination originally appeared, see Appendix 4.

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Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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