Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia 
Bibliography Record
| x | Thomas, Davidson | ||
| 1966 | Natural 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. | ||
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Accidental Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Conservation; Hunting and Capture; Natural Death or Injury)
(SEE ALSO: Conservation; Hunting and Capture; Natural Death or Injury)
| x | 1966 | Thomas, D. (DD; Rameswaram, India; nets; 80-82.) |
Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
| x | 1966 | Thomas, D. (DD; India; herds of up to 400-500; 80-81.) |
Behavior, Epimeletic
| x | 1966 | Thomas, D. (DD; India; holding & nursing young; 80.) |
Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
| x | 1966 | Thomas, D. (DD; India; eating seagrass rhizomes; feeding with tail up; 80.) |
Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
| x | 1966 | Thomas, D. (DD; India; young ?staying farther from shore; 80.) |
Birth and Breeding
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
| x | 1966 | Thomas, D. (DD; India; many 8-ft.-long females pregnant; 80.) |
Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
| x | 1966 | Thomas, D. (DD; India; 81.) |
Dugong Lacépède, 1799
| x | * | 1966 | Thomas, D. (India; natural history, hunting; 80-82.) |
Economic Uses
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
| x | * | 1966 | Thomas, D. (DD; India; meat, oil, 80-81; bones, 80.) |
Excretion and Defecation
(SEE ALSO: Salinity Tolerance; Urogenital System)
(SEE ALSO: Salinity Tolerance; Urogenital System)
| x | 1966 | Thomas, D. (DD; India; floating feces; 80.) |
Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
| x | * | 1966 | Thomas, D. (DD; Rameswaram, India; nets; 80-82.) |
India
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean)
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean)
| x | * | 1966 | Thomas, D. (DD; Rameswaram; natural history, hunting; 80-82.) |
Medicinal Applications
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use)
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use)
| x | 1966 | Thomas, D. (DD; India; meat, for intestinal disorders & for causing abortion, 80; oil, for dysentery, intestinal ulcers, & piles; 81.) |
Migration and Movements
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Aggregative; Behavior, Shelter-seeking; Locomotion; Temperature, Effects of)
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Aggregative; Behavior, Shelter-seeking; Locomotion; Temperature, Effects of)
| x | 1966 | Thomas, D. (DD; India; hunted, Nov.-Feb.; young not coming as close inshore as adults; movements during monsoon; 80-81.) |
Salinity Tolerance
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
| x | 1966 | Thomas, D. (DD; in capt., India; kept in brackish water; 81.) |
Sri Lanka
| x | 1966 | Thomas, D. (DD; meat imported from India; 80-81.) |
Vernacular Names
| x | 1966 | Thomas, D. (DD; India; avulia, kadalpanni; 80.) |