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RHYTINA

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 281 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
RHYTINA , a name applied to the northern sea-cow (Rhytina gigas, or stelleri), a gigantic relative of the
manati
  and
dugong
 , which formerly inhabited
Bering
  and Copper Islands, in the North Pacific, where it was discovered during
Bering
 's voyage in 1741, and subsequently described by Steller, who accompanied that expedition as a naturalist. Bering's half-starved sailors soon reduced the numbers of these comparatively helpless creatures; and it was not
long
  afterprobably about the year 1768that the species, which was the
sole
  representative of its genus, became completely exterminated. The Rhytina was the largest member of the order Sirenia, attaining a length of nearly twenty feet; and had a very thick, rugged, bark-like skin. The jaws, which are bent downwards to a moderate extent, are unprovided with teeth, but in
life
  carried ridged horny plates. The tail was very deeply forked; and the flippers were short and truncated, lacking apparently the terminal
joints
  of the digits.
When first discovered., this Sirenian was extremely numerous in the bays of Bering
Island
 , where it browsed upon the abundant sea-tangle. Its extirpation is due to the
Russian
  sailors and traders who visited the
island
  in pursuit of seals and sea-otters, and who subsisted on its flesh. Numbers of bones have been discovered in the soil of Bering and Copper Islands, from which more or less nearly perfect skeletons have been reconstructed, so that the osteology of this interesting animal is well represented in most of the larger museums. (R. L.*)


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