Definition of Hydrodamalis

1. Noun. A genus of the family Dugongidae comprising only Steller's sea cow.

Exact synonyms: Genus Hydrodamalis
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Dugongidae, Family Dugongidae
Member holonyms: Hydrodamalis Gigas, Steller's Sea Cow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrodamalis

Hydrangeaceae
Hydrastis Canadensis
Hydrilla verticillata
HydroDIURIL
Hydrobates
Hydrobates pelagicus
Hydrobatidae
Hydrocharidaceae
Hydrocharis
Hydrocharis morsus-ranae
Hydrocharitaceae
Hydrochoeridae
Hydrochoerus
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
Hydrocortone
Hydrodamalis
Hydrodamalis gigas
Hydromantes
Hydromantes brunus
Hydromantes shastae
Hydromyinae
Hydromys
Hydrophyidae
Hydrophyllaceae
Hydrophyllum
Hydrophyllum virginianum
Hydrus
Hyemoschus
Hyemoschus aquaticus
Hygeian

Literary usage of Hydrodamalis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"... sea- cow (hydrodamalis) from Bering Sea. The specimen was found, freshly fallen, under a cliff of the Calvert Miocene on the western shore of Maryland. ..."

2. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"Of these, the sea cow (hydrodamalis gigas, also known as Rytina gigas or stelleri) possesses greatest interest, on account of its early extermination by man ..."

3. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"The great Arctic sea-cow, hydrodamalis gigas, once occurred abundantly in the Bering Sea region where it reached a length of twenty to thirty feet. ..."

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