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x Domning, Daryl Paul
  1990a
Sirenian rhizivory studies. In: L. W. Lefebvre & J. A. Powell, Jr., Manatee grazing impacts on seagrasses in Hobe Sound and Jupiter Sound in southeast Florida during the winter of 1988-89.
NTIS Document No. PB 90-271883 (vi + 36): 34-36.
–Describes observations and experiments conducted to determine how thoroughly manatees can excavate and remove seagrass rhizomes, and how effective tusks of extinct dugongids might have been for this purpose. Results of experiments on the latter topic were published by Domning & Beatty (2007).

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Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
x  1990aDomning, D.P. (rhizivory experiments; 34-36.)
Corystosiren Domning, 1990
x *1990bDomning, D.P. (n.gen.; Plioc., Mexico & Florida; 361.)
Corystosiren varguezi Domning, 1990
x *1990bDomning, D.P. (n.gen.n.sp.; Plioc., Mexico & Florida; 361-371.)
Dioplotherium Cope, 1883
x  1990aDomning, D.P. (rhizivory experiments with model tusks; 35-36.)
x  1990bDomning, D.P. (comp. w/ Corystosiren varguezi; 362, 369.)
Florida
x  1990aDomning, D.P. (Hobe & Jupiter Sounds; rhizivory experiments; 34-36.)
x *1990bDomning, D.P. (Corystosiren varguezi, n.gen.n.sp.; Plioc.; 361-362.)
Food Plants: Halodule
x  1990aDomning, D.P. (Florida; 34.)
Food Plants: Syringodium filiforme
x  1990aDomning, D.P. (Florida; 34.)
Halitherium olseni Reinhart, 1976
x  1990bDomning, D.P. (comp. w/ Corystosiren varguezi; 369.)
Metaxytherium de Christol, 1840
x  1990aDomning, D.P. (rhizivory experiments with model tusks; 35-36.)
x  1990bDomning, D.P. (comp. w/ Corystosiren varguezi; 363.)
Metaxytherium ortegense Kellogg, 1966
x  1990bDomning, D.P. (comp. w/ Corystosiren varguezi; 370.)
Mexico
(SEE ALSO: Baja California; Central America)
x *1990bDomning, D.P. (Corystosiren varguezi, n.gen.n.sp.; Plioc., Yucatan; 361-362.)
Paleoecology and Taphonomy
x  1990aDomning, D.P. (rhizivory experiments; 34-36.)
Pliocene
x  1990bDomning, D.P. (Corystosiren varguezi, n.gen.n.sp.; Mexico, Florida; 362.)
Rytiodus capgrandi Lartet, 1866
x  1990bDomning, D.P. (comp. w/ Corystosiren varguezi; 362, 367-369.)
Trichechus manatus latirostris (Harlan, 1824) Hatt, 1934
xv 1990aDomning, D.P. (Florida; feeding on seagrass rhizomes; 34-36.)
Xenosiren yucateca Domning, 1989
x  1990bDomning, D.P. (comp. w/ Corystosiren varguezi; 362, 368-369.)