Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia | The significant published literature on the neobiology, paleobiology, and ethnobiology of the mammalian orders Sirenia and Desmostylia is exhaustively cataloged in over 5,300 main entries alphabetized by author.

FRONTISPIECE.—The earliest illustration of a sirenian to be published: the West Indian manatee, from the 1535 edition of La Historia General delas Indias by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés. The slightly different woodcut that has been reproduced several times as the earliest figure of the manatee is actually from the 1547 edition.