Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia 
Bibliography Record
| x | Sickenberg, Otto | ||
| 1931 | Morphologie und Stammesgeschichte der Sirenen.... I. Die Einflüsse des Wasserlebens auf die innere Sekretion und Formgestaltung der Sirenen. Palaeobiologica (Wien) 4(6/7): 405-444. –Presents anatomical, ontogenetic, and phylogenetic evidence that neoteny, arising from dysfunction of the thyroid and/or pituitary glands as a result of chronic oxygen deficiency and high iodine content of food, is a pervasive feature of sir. development and evolution. | ||
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Brain and Nervous System
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs)
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs)
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (DD; neoteny; 430-431.) |
Embryology and Ontogeny
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Growth Rates; Teratology)
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Growth Rates; Teratology)
| x | * | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (retardation of ossification & suture closure, etc.; 412-417, 428-431.) |
Endocrinology
| x | * | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (effects of thyroid & hypophysis on ossification & growth; 417-442.) |
Eotherium abeli Sickenberg, 1934
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. ("E[otherium]. (Eosiren) abeli", nomen nudum; pachyostosis & osteosclerosis; 409, 414.) |
Eotherium aegyptiacum Owen, 1875
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (pachyostosis & osteosclerosis; 409, 411, 414.) |
Eotherium libycum (Andrews, 1902) Sickenberg, 1934
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (pachyostosis & osteosclerosis, 408-409, 411, 414; tooth replacement, 429.) |
Eotherium stromeri Sickenberg, 1934
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (nomen nudum; pachyostosis & osteosclerosis; 409, 414.) |
Felsinotherium Capellini, 1872
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (pachyostosis & osteosclerosis; 409, 415.) |
Felsinotherium forestii Capellini, 1872
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (suppression of replacement premolars; 429.) |
Halicore dugong (Gmelin, 1788) Illiger, 1811
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (pachyostosis, osteosclerosis, 410-413, 415, 427; tooth replacement, 429; neoteny of brain & genitalia, 430-431.) |
Halitherium schinzii (Kaup, 1838) Kaup, 1855
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (pachyostosis, osteosclerosis, 409-415, 427; tooth replacement, 429.) |
Histology
(SEE ALSO: Skeleton; other organ systems)
(SEE ALSO: Skeleton; other organ systems)
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (osteosclerosis; 407-412, 416, 434-435.) |
Manatus senegalensis Desmarest, 1817
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (pachyostosis & osteosclerosis; 410, 412-413, 415.) |
Metaxytherium cuvierii (de Christol, 1832) de Christol in de Blainville, 1844
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (pachyostosis & osteosclerosis; 409, 414.) |
Metaxytherium krahuletzi Depéret, 1895
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (pachyostosis & osteosclerosis, 409, 414; not a syn. of M. studeri, 428.) |
Metaxytherium petersi Abel, 1904
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (pachyostosis & osteosclerosis; 409, 414.) |
Metaxytherium studeri (von Meyer, 1838) Depéret, 1895
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (suppression of replacement premolars; distinctness from M. krahuletzi; 428.) |
Miosiren kocki Dollo, 1889
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (pachyostosis & osteosclerosis; 410-411, 415-416, 435.) |
Prorastomus sirenoides Owen, 1855
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (pachyostosis & osteosclerosis; 409, 411.) |
Protosiren fraasi Abel, 1907
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (pachyostosis & osteosclerosis, 409, 411, 414, 416; tooth replacement, 429; respiratory adaptations, 438.) |
Prototherium veronense (de Zigno, 1875) de Zigno, 1887
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (pachyostosis & osteosclerosis, 409, 411, 414; tooth replacement, 429.) |
Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (effects on endocrine function; 433-439.) |
Respiratory System
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (adaptations of thorax & lungs; 438-439.) |
Rytina stelleri (Retzius, 1794) Desmarest, 1819
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. ("Rhytina"; pachyostosis & osteosclerosis, 410-411, 415; loss of teeth, 429.) |
Rytiodus capgrandi Lartet, 1866
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. ("Rhytiodus"; pachyostosis & osteosclerosis; 409.) |
Skeleton
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (pachyostosis & osteosclerosis, 407-412; epiphyseal fusion, 412-417; other changes, 427-431.) |
Tooth Replacement
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (suppression of premolars; 428-431.) |
Urogenital System
(SEE ALSO: Excretion and Defecation)
(SEE ALSO: Excretion and Defecation)
| x | 1931 | Sickenberg, O. (DD; neoteny of male genitalia; 431.) |