Trichechidae
Appearance
(Redirected from Miosireninae)
Trichechidae Temporal range: Late Oligocene – Recent
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West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Sirenia |
Family: | Trichechidae Gill 1872 |
Genera | |
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Trichechidae is a family of sirenians that includes all living manatees and several extinct genera.
Systematics
[edit]Trichechidae
- †Miosireninae[1]
- †Anomotherium
- †Anomotherium langewieschei
- †Miosiren
- †Miosiren canhami
- †Miosiren kocki
- †Anomotherium
- Trichechinae
- Trichechus
- Trichechus inunguis - Amazonian Manatee
- Trichechus manatus - West Indian Manatee
- Trichechus senegalensis - African Manatee
- †Trichechus hesperamazonicus
- †Potamosiren
- †Potamosiren magdalensis
- †Ribodon
- †Ribodon limbatus
- Trichechus
References
[edit]- ^ M. Voss. 2014. On the invalidity of Halitherium schinzii Kaup, 1838 (Mammalia, Sirenia), with comments on systematic consequences. Zoosystematics and Evolution 90(1):87-93