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Definition of Hydrodamalis
1. Noun. A genus of the family Dugongidae comprising only Steller's sea cow.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Dugongidae, Family Dugongidae
Member holonyms: Hydrodamalis Gigas, Steller's Sea Cow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrodamalis
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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