The evolutionary history of manatees told by their mitogenomes
Scientific Reports, 2021 The manatee family encompasses three extant congeneric species: Trichechus senegalensis (African manatee), T. inunguis (Amazonian manatee), and T. manatus (West Indian manatee).
Érica Martinha Silva de Souza +11 more
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Color Vision in the Manatee (Trichechus manatus)
Vision Research, 1996 Four manatees were trained to discriminate between a colored stimulus and a shade of gray in a two-fold simultaneous choice situation. The colors blue, green, red and blue-green were tested against shades of gray varying from low to high relative brightness. The animals distinguished both blue and green from a series of grays but failed to discriminate
GRIEBEL, ULRIKE, SCHMID, AXEL
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Manatíes y delfines en sitios arqueológicos precolombinos de Cuba
Novitates Caribaea, 2015 Se revisa el registro de los mamíferos acuáticos hallados en sitios arqueológicos precolombinos de Cuba, el cual incluye mayormente el manatí (Trichechus manatus) y en muy escasa frecuencia al delfín nariz de botella (Turciops truncatus) y otro cetáceo ...
Osvaldo Jiménez Vázquez
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TLR4 and TLR8 variability in Amazonian and West Indian manatee species from Brazil [PDF]
Genetics and Molecular BiologyAmazonian (Trichechus inunguis) and West Indian (Trichechus manatus) manatees are aquatic mammals vulnerable to extinction found in the Amazon basin and the coastal western Atlantic.
Tatiana Maia de Oliveira +10 more
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Florida manatees Trichechus manatus latirostris actively consume the sponge Chondrilla caribensis [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 The Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris Linnaeus 1758) actively selects and consumes the “chicken-liver” sponge Chondrilla caribensis. Manatees ate over 10% of C.
William Fitt
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Behavioral lateralization in the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) [PDF]
, 2016 We examined side preferences in the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) through observations of limb use (right and left flipper) in 123 wild and 16 captive individuals. We also analyzed archival data on wild manatees to develop an ...
Bauer, Gordon B. +5 more
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Twelve years of “Astro” in Sergipe State: in search of harmony between the manatee and the local waterside communities =Doze anos de “Astro” no Estado de Sergipe: buscando harmonia entre o peixe-boi e as comunidades ribeirinhas [PDF]
Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2012 The Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus) is the most threatened aquatic mammal in Brazil. It was considered to be extinct in Sergipe until 1998, when a re-introduced animal (Astro) arrived.
Stephen Francis Ferrari +1 more
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Abdominal ultrasound in amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis) (Natterer, 1883)
Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2021 Morphophysiological species researches are fundamental, and diagnostic imaging is an excellent technique, already used in wild animals, with great application, not invasive and provide real-time information of each body.
U. H. A. Barreto +6 more
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, 2005 Trichechus Linnaeus 1758 Trichechus Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 34. Type Species: Trichechus manatus Linnaeus 1758 Synonyms: Halipaedisca Gistel 1848; Manatus Brünnich 1771; Oxystomus G. Fischer von Waldheim 1803; Trichecus Oken 1816.
Wilson, Don E., Reeder, DeeAnn
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