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XVII.—On the Placentation of Halicore Dugong

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

Wm. Turner
Wm. Turner
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Professor of Anatomy in the University of Edinburgh.
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Comparative anatomists have long desired detailed information on the placentation of the Sirenia. It is true that in 1878 Dr Paul Harting presented to the University of Utrecht a graduation thesis, in which he described the fœtal membranes and fœtus of a Dugong, which had been acquired a short time before for the Zoological Museum of that University. The specimen had been preserved for many years in spirit of wine, and had apparently been collected by a surgeon to a merchant ship. The fœtus was 27·8 centimetres (11 inches) long. The entire chorion, with the exception of the two poles and their immediate vicinity, was covered by densely packed, short and but little branched villi, and Dr Harting came to the conclusion that the placenta of the Dugong was diffuse and non-deciduate.

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , February 1890 , pp. 641 - 662
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1890

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