Siren (genus)

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Siren
Temporal range: Eocene–present
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Lesser siren, Siren intermedia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Family: Sirenidae
Genus: Siren
Linnaeus, 1766 [note 1]
Type species
Siren lacertina
Linnaeus, 1766

Siren is a genus of aquatic salamanders of the family Sirenidae. [1] [2] The genus consists of five living species, along with one extinct species from the Eocene Epoch and three from the Miocene.

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The living species have elongated, eel-like bodies, with two small vestigial fore legs.

Siren intermedia, the lesser siren, has been seen as both a colonizer and a dominant species, in a single community, at two different succession stages [5] . In Texas, during the 1970's, the species was found to have removed at least 283 individuals from a beaver pond, over a four year period [6] .

Species

Extant (living) species include: [1]

Extinct species:[ citation needed ]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Sometimes listed as Siren Österdam, 1766, [1] [2] but Linnaeus has been ceded formal authorship by ICZN Opinion 92 in 1926 [3] and Direction 57 in 1956. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Siren Österdam, 1766". research.amnh.org. Amphibian Species of the World. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Siren". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  3. ↑ "BioStor-Lite". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 73 (4): 3–4. 1926.
  4. ↑ "Direction 57 Addition to the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology (A) of the specific names of Forty-seven species belonging to the classes Cyclostomata, Pisces, Amphibia and Reptilia, each of which is the type species of a genus, the name of which was placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology in the period up to the end of 1936 and (B) of the specific name of one species of the class Amphibia which is currently treated as a senior Subjective synonym of the name of such a species". Archived from the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  5. ↑ Gehlbach, Frederick R.; Kennedy, Stephen E. (1978). "Population Ecology of a Highly Productive Aquatic Salamander (Siren intermedia)". The Southwestern Naturalist. 23 (3): 423–429. doi:10.2307/3670250. ISSN   0038-4909.
  6. ↑ Gehlbach, Frederick R.; Kennedy, Stephen E. (1978). "Population Ecology of a Highly Productive Aquatic Salamander (Siren intermedia)". The Southwestern Naturalist. 23 (3): 423–429. doi:10.2307/3670250. ISSN   0038-4909.
  7. ↑ "Record 184170 Nomenclator Zoologicus Record Detail". www.ubio.org. Retrieved 6 December 2018.



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