Thomas, Davidson

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Thomas, Davidson (detail)
1966Natural history of dugong in Rameswaram waters.
Madras Jour. Fish. 2: 80-82. 1 fig. July 1966.
—Detailed account of dugong netting, with data on catch, seasonal occurrence, movements, miscellaneous behavior, economic and medicinal uses, and the capture and transport of two dugongs for display in Madras in 1961-62. Thomas' claim of large extant herds of dugongs was thought by S. Jones (1981: 46) to have been mistakenly based on Neophocaena.