Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia 
Bibliography Record
| x | Taylor, Michael A. | ||
| 1994 | Stone, bone or blubber? Buoyancy control strategies in aquatic tetrapods. In: L. Maddock, Q. Bone, & J. M. V. Rayner (eds.), Mechanics and physiology of animal swimming. Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press (260 pp.): 151-161. 1 tab. 4 figs. –Suggests that sirs. are convergent on sea otters and placodonts in that they show increases in body density and submerged lung volume as adaptations for bottom-feeding in shallow water (160). | ||
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Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
| x | 1994 | Taylor, M.A. (buoyancy control in sirs.; 157, 160-161.) |