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IN my paper “On the Manatee of St. Helena”1. I brought forward evidence that the so-called manatee formerly found at St. Helena was a sea-lion, probably the Cape sea-lion, Arctocephalus antarcticus, not a sea-cow, natural conditions at St. Helena being quite unsuitable for sea-cows.
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Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Forening., 97; 1933.
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MORTENSEN, T. The ‘Manatee’ of St, Helena. Nature 133, 417 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133417a0
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