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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>Halitherium antillense</jats:italic> Matthew, 1916 was established on a left mandibular fragment and two vertebrae from late Oligocene deposits of Puerto Rico. This species was only provisionally referred to the genus <jats:italic>Halitherium</jats:italic> and its taxonomic status and systematic affinities remained doubtful. In the course of the revision of the <jats:italic>Halitherium</jats:italic>-species complex and the meanwhile invalid generic name “<jats:italic>Halitherium</jats:italic>”, the holotype, and only known specimen, is re-investigated. A number of morphological characters usually diagnostic in sirenians are determined. However, the holotype material of “<jats:italic>H.</jats:italic>” <jats:italic>antillense</jats:italic> is not informative enough and, as such, neither can be assigned to any known species nor is it possible to define a taxon that can be clearly distinguished from other species. Unlike other, now revised species originally grouped under “<jats:italic>Halitherium</jats:italic>”, the establishment of a new taxonomic combination for “<jats:italic>H.</jats:italic>” <jats:italic>antillense</jats:italic> is not possible. As a nomenclatural consequence, the name “<jats:italic>H.</jats:italic>” <jats:italic>antillense</jats:italic> is only applicable to a single specimen, the holotype, and declared as a <jats:italic>nomen dubium</jats:italic>.</jats:p>
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