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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

Biodiversidade Brasileira
No 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, Fernanda Loffer Niemeyer Attademo, Salvatore Siciliano, Filipe de Oliveira Chaves, Natália Costa Silva, Fábia de Oliveira Luna, Louiziane Gabriele Souza Soeiro, Keila Rego Mendes, Laura Moreira de Andrade-Reis   +8 more
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Datos preliminares del estudio cardiológico de dos ejemplares en cautiverio de Trichechus manatus manatus y Trichechus inunguis , (Mammalia, Sirenia)

Acta Biológica Colombiana, 2001
Los manatíes son mamíferos acuáticos de gran tamaño. Estos animales poseen hábitatsrestringidos y con características particulares. Para Colombia se han detectado poblacionesmuy bajas y dada la ubicación de estos mamíferos en grupos aislados en sistemas ...
MA. Vargas, ML. Bueno
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Mating Behavior of Manatees Documented in Mississippi Estuarine Waters. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
This study documents the first recorded instance of mating behavior by Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris) in Mississippi estuarine waters, observed opportunistically via a drone during a routine survey at the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Muraco H, Virden M, Chevis M, Chenier K, Stratman M, Free A, Sparks E.   +6 more
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First Description of a Satellite DNA in Manatees’ Centromeric Regions

Frontiers in Genetics, 2021
Trichechus manatus and Trichechus inunguis are the two Sirenia species that occur in the Americas. Despite their increasing extinction risk, many aspects of their biology remain understudied, including the repetitive DNA fraction of their genomes.
Mirela Pelizaro Valeri, Guilherme Borges Dias, Alice Alves do Espírito Santo, Camila Nascimento Moreira, Yatiyo Yonenaga-Yassuda, Iara Braga Sommer, Gustavo C. S. Kuhn, Marta Svartman   +7 more
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Microplastics in large marine herbivores: Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris) in Tampa Bay

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Although there is growing concern about ingestion of microplastics by marine organisms, little research has been conducted on marine herbivores. This is the first study to document microplastic ingestion within the family Sirenia.
Shannon Gowans, A. Siuda
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Programa de solturas de peixes-bois-marinhos

Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2023
Planos de ação nacional para a conservação das espécies ameaçadas de extinção são instrumentos de gestão que priorizam ações para a conservação da biodiversidade, em especial espécies ameaçadas de extinção. O peixe-boi-marinho Trichechus manatus manatus
Leandro Lazzari Ciotti, Fernanda Löffler Niemeyer Attademo , Alexandra Fernandes Costa, Salvatore Siciliano, Iran Campelo Normande, João Carlos Gomes Borges, Ernesto Frederico da Costa Foppel, Fábio Adônis Gouveia Carneiro da Cunha, Thalma Maria Grisi Veloso, Fábia de Oliveira Luna   +9 more
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Manatee watching is widespread and seasonally affected in Northeast Brazil: a case of the Endangered Trichechus manatus manatus (Sirenia: Trichechidae)

Nature Conservation Research, 2023
Marine mammal watching is a non-consumptive wildlife-oriented tourism practice. Trichechus manatus manatus (hereinafter – Antillean manatee) belongs to the charismatic marine megafauna and is subject to this practice at many places.
P. Coutinho, A. L. Matte, B. Bezerra
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Novel Lethal Clostridial Infection in Florida Manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris): Cause of the 2013 Unusual Mortality Event in the Indian River Lagoon

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
The Indian River Lagoon (IRL) on Florida’s east coast is a biologically diverse estuary and an important habitat to the threatened Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris).
J. Landsberg, M. Tabuchi, D. Rotstein, K. Subramaniam, T. C. Rodrigues, T. Waltzek, N. Stacy, P. Wilson, Y. Kiryu, F. Uzal, M. de Wit   +10 more
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Long-term spatiotemporal distribution, abundance, and priority areas for manatees and calves (Trichechus manatus Sirenia: Trichechidae) in Guatemala

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.
E. Quintana-Rizzo, Oscar Machuca-Coronado, Heidy Amely Garcia   +2 more
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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, Lucas Freitas, Elisa Karen da Silva Ramos, Giovanna Selleghin-Veiga, Michelle Carneiro Rachid-Ribeiro, Felipe André Silva, Miriam Marmontel, Fabrício Rodrigues dos Santos, Anne Laudisoit, Erik Verheyen, Daryl P. Domning, Mariana Freitas Nery   +11 more
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