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Diet of the manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) in Chetumal Bay, Mexico

Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 2009
Manatees, as well as other sirenians, are aquatic, opportunistic herbivores. Knowledge of their diet is important to determine habitat requirements. This is the first study of manatee diet in Mexico. Our main objective was to identify the plant species eaten by manatees in Chetumal Bay, and to establish if diet composition varied by climatic season ...
D. N. Castelblanco-Martínez, B. Morales-Vela, H. A. Hernández-Arana, J. Padilla-Saldivar   +3 more
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Distribution of the Antillean manatee (Trichecus manatus manatus) in the Alvarado Lagoon System (Veracruz, Mexico)

Ciencias Marinas, 2012
The Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus) is considered endangered in Mexico. Local extinctions have been documented in the northern Gulf of Mexico, and the only remaining population with a northern distribution is found in the Alvarado Lagoon ...
IC Daniel-Rentería, A Serrano, G Sánchez-Rojas   +2 more
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Assessing the Giant Panda Protected Areas and Habitat Trends for Sympatric Endangered Species: A Climate Change Perspective. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Here, we used a tuned MaxEnt model to investigate concurrent habitat trends of giant pandas and sympatric endangered species—forest musk deer—under various climate scenarios in the Liangshan Mountains. Additionally, we assessed the effectiveness of protected area boundaries designed for flagship species.
Du Y, Jiang Y, Zheng B, Liu T, Yu P, Yang M, Ran J.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Trichechus manatus Linnaeus 1758

, 2020
Published as part of Bell, Christopher J., Godwin, William, Jenkins, Kelsey M. & Lewis, Patrick J., 2020, First fossil manatees in Texas, USA: Trichechus manatus bakerorum from Pleistocene beach deposits along the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 1-16 in Palaeontologia Electronica (a 47) (a 47) 23 (3) on page 7, DOI: 10.26879/1006, http://zenodo.org/record ...
Bell, Christopher J., Godwin, William, Jenkins, Kelsey M., Lewis, Patrick J.   +3 more
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Analysis of a long-term dataset of Antillean manatee strandings in Belize: implications for conservation

Oryx, 2023
We analysed 23 years of data on strandings of the Antillean manatee Trichechus manatus manatus in Belize, documented by the Belize Marine Mammal Stranding Network, to examine the threats to this population.
Jamal Galves, Celeshia Guy Galves, Nicole Auil Gomez, Robert K. Bonde, James Powell, Anmari Alvarez-Alemán, Nataly Castelblanco-Martínez   +6 more
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Gulf of Mexico oil blowout increases risks to globally threatened species [PDF]

, 2011
Fourteen marine species in the Gulf of Mexico are protected by the US Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
Campagna, C, Carpenter, KE, Collette, BB, McManus, R, Pilcher, NJ, Polidoro, BA, Sadovy de Mitcheson, Y, Short, FT, Stuart, SN   +8 more
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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
doaj   +1 more source

Additional records of metazoan parasites from Caribbean marine mammals, including genetically identified anisakid nematodes [PDF]

, 2009
Studies of marine mammal parasites in the Caribbean are scarce. An assessment for marine mammal endo- and ectoparasites from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, but extending to other areas of the Caribbean, was conducted between 1989 and 1994.
A Coy-Otero, A Valentini, AA Mignucci-Giannoni, AA Mignucci-Giannoni, AA Mignucci-Giannoni, AI García-Rodríguez, Antonio A. Mignucci-Giannoni, AO Debrot, AS Skrjabin, B Berland, B Morales-Vela, B Morales-Vela, CA Beck, D Blair, DF Cowan, DF McAlpine, DI Gibson, DJ Forrester, DM Hillis, DW Rice, EP Hoberg, Ernest H. Williams, FJ Aznar, FJ Aznar, G Gunter, GE Pendergraph, Giuseppe Nascetti, GJB Ross, GJB Ross, HA Baylis, HEM Yang, J Felsenstein, J Testa, JA Raga, JA Raga, JA Raga, JA Vianna, JD Thompson, JE Heyning, JL Bannister, JT Davey, KA McColl, L Paggi, LA Dierauf, LF Khalil, M Fernández, M Ortíz, Marlene M. Colón-Llavina, MC Milinkovitch, MD Dailey, MD Dailey, MD Dailey, MF Nikaido, Michela Paoletti, MM Bryden, N Kagei, PW Arnold, R Iglesias, RP Dollfus, S Kumar, S Mattiucci, S Mattiucci, S Mattiucci, S Mattiucci, S Mattiucci, S Mattiucci, S Yamaguti, S Yamaguti, S Yamaguti, S Yamaguti, S Yamaguti, S Yamaguti, SA Nadler, SC Schell, SC Schmidt, SG Zam, Simonetta Mattiucci, SJ Upton, T Pontes, TA Hall, TL Deardorff, VE Sokolov   +81 more
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Increasing mortality of Endangered Antillean manatees Trichechus manatus manatus due to watercraft collisions in Belize

Endangered Species Research, 2023
Belize maintains the largest proportion of the Endangered Antillean manatee Trichechus manatus manatus population in its range, but tourism and boat traffic have increased substantially over the past 3 decades.
CG Galves, NA Gomez, J Galves, KM Zilliacus, DA Croll, AM Kilpatrick   +5 more
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Cuban Connection: Regional Role for Florida's Manatees

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018
The status of the West Indian manatee [Trichechus manatus (Linnaeus, 1758)] remains enigmatic. The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the species as “Vulnerable” and the two subspecies [T. m. manatus (Linnaeus, 1758) and T.
Anmari Alvarez-Alemán, Anmari Alvarez-Alemán, James D. Austin, James D. Austin, Charles A. Jacoby, Charles A. Jacoby, Thomas K. Frazer, Thomas K. Frazer   +7 more
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