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Definition of Hydrodamalis gigas
1. Noun. Extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea.
Generic synonyms: Sea Cow, Sirenian, Sirenian Mammal
Group relationships: Genus Hydrodamalis, Hydrodamalis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrodamalis Gigas
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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