Definition of Hydrodamalis gigas

1. Noun. Extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea.

Exact synonyms: Steller's Sea Cow
Generic synonyms: Sea Cow, Sirenian, Sirenian Mammal
Group relationships: Genus Hydrodamalis, Hydrodamalis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrodamalis Gigas

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

Literary usage of Hydrodamalis gigas

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

1. 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 ..."

2. 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. ..."

3. The Fur Seals and Fur-seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean by David Starr Jordan, George Archibald Clark, Leonhard Hess Stejneger, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (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 ..."

4. Bibliographia zoologica by Concilium Bibliographicum (1897)
"220. [599.55 R. ti Palmen, ST 1895. The earliest Name for Steller's Sea Cow and Dugong. Science, NS Vol. 2. p. 449-450. [599.55R. [Hydrodamalis gigas Zimm.; ..."

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