Wilder, Burt Green

4 publications

Wilder, Burt Green (detail)
1875On a foetal manatee and cetacean, with remarks on the affinities and ancestry of the Sirenia.
Amer. Jour. Sci. (3)10: 105-114. Pl. 8.
—Describes the "smallest foetal sirenian on record", a T. inunguis from Peru 55 mm long (105-106, 108-109, 112-114), and reviews ideas on sir. affinities (107-113); concludes they are ungulates. See also Wilder (1908).
Wilder, Burt Green (detail)
1905Notes and queries as to: (a) the cerebral commissures of the elephant shrew Macroscelides; (b) brain and heart of a manatee, and what is believed to be the smallest known sirenian fetus; (c) the brains of various fishes, including the rare Japanese shark, Mitsukurina; (d) the swallowing of a young alligator by a frog.
Science (n.s.) 21: 268-269.
—Refers to the same fetus described by Wilder (1875).
Wilder, Burt Green (detail)
1907[Manatee embryo.]
Amer. Naturalist 41(490): 663. Oct. 1907.
—P. 663 (in "Scientific Exhibits at the Seventh International Zoological Congress"): {{"Professor Wilder showed the 'smallest known embryo of the manatee,' - a specimen approximately an inch and a half long."}} See also Wilder (1908).
Wilder, Burt Green (detail)
1908The length of the smallest known sirenian fetus; gyre preferred to "convolution".
Science (n.s.) 27(699): 825. May 22, 1908.
—Corrects the statement in Wilder (1907); the fetus was actually 53 mm or about 2-1/8 inches long, having shrunk about 2 mm since the report in Wilder (1875).