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Levantamento das áreas de ocorrência de peixe-boi-marinho (Trichechus manatus manatus) no interior da Reserva Extrativista Marinha de Cururupu/MA e região de entorno [PDF]
Biodiversidade BrasileiraNo Brasil existem duas espécies de sirênios pertencentes à  família Trichechidae: o peixe-boi-marinho-das-Antilhas (Trichechus manatus manatus) e o peixe-boi-amazônico (Trichechus inunguis).
Paloma Pinheiro Reis +8 more
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Revista de Biología Tropical, 2023 Introduction: Marine mammal strandings can be used to determine the impacts of anthropogenic activity on the species survival, population health, and levels of environmental pollution in ecosystems. In addition, these data can help design conservation and management strategies as well as identify priority areas for the species. The West Indian manatee (
Oscar Machuca-Coronado +4 more
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Revista de Biología Tropical, 2023 Introduction: The Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus) is an endangered species found throughout the Caribbean, and the coastal waters of Central and northeastern South America. Their low numbers are the result of a variety of human-related pressures.
Ester Quintana-Rizzo +2 more
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Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi - Ciências Naturais, 2020 South America is unique as it is home of two species of manatees: the West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus, and the Amazonian manatee, T. inunguis. These species are easily identified by the belly skin coloration, the first is entirely gray whereas T. inunguis has a white mark pattern in the belly, and presence of nails in T.
Salvatore Siciliano +6 more
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Revista de Biología Tropical, 2023 Introduction: The two subspecies of the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), Florida manatees (T. m. latirostris) and Antillean manatees (T. m. manatus), face different environmental challenges. While Florida manatees have to cope with winter water temperatures below their lower critical temperature of ~ 20 °C and air temperatures below freezing ...
Nicola Erdsack +2 more
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Aquatic mammal fossils in Latin America – a review of records, advances and challenges in research in the last 30 years [PDF]
Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 2023 Records of aquatic mammal fossils (e.g. cetaceans, pinnipeds, sirenians, mustelids, and desmostylians) from Latin America (Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, including Antartica) span since the mid-1800s.
M. Viglino +9 more
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Ethnobiology and Conservation, 2020 The Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis) is the largest aquatic freshwater mammal in South America found in the main rivers of the Amazon Basin. The main objective of this work was to describe the ecological knowledge and use of the Amazonian manatee in the Extractive Reserve Verde para Sempre (RESEX), located in Porto de Moz, Para, Brazilian Amazon.
Cinthia Magali Moreira Hoffmann +5 more
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Antillean manatee Trichechus manatus manatus (Sirenia: Trichechidae) as a motile ecosystem of epibiont fauna in the Caribbean Sea, Mexico [PDF]
Therya, 2017 The study of epibionts allows inferring ecological, biogeographic and health aspects of the host species (basibiont), and their study on marine mammals is scarce. The aim of this work was to characterize the epibiont fauna associated with the skin of captive individuals of the West Indian manatee in three sites from the Mexican Caribbean.
MARCO VIOLANTE-HUERTA +2 more
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Folia ParasitologicaMorphological data are used to describe a new nematode species, Heterocheilus floridensis sp. n. (Heterocheilidae) from the digestive tract of the Florida manatee Trichechus manatus latirostris (Harlan) (Trichechidae, Sirenia) from Florida, USA. Examination by light and scanning electron microscopy revealed that the new species differs from the related
František Moravec +3 more
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Osteological Associations With Unique Tooth Development in Manatees (Trichechidae, Sirenia): A Detailed Look at Modern Trichechus and a Review of the Fossil Record [PDF]
The Anatomical Record, 2012 AbstractModern manatees have a unique type of tooth development, continually forming identical new molars in the posterior end of each quadrant of their mouths, and then progressively moving teeth anteriorly, only to reabsorb roots and spit out worn crowns.
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