Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:34. TYPE LOCALITY: West Indies. DISTRIBUTION: S. Atlantic and Caribbean coasts from Virginia (U.S.A.) and West Indies to Sergipe (formerly to Espirito Santo), (Brazil); Orinoco and Magdalena river systems. COMMENT: Includes latirostris; see Hatt, 1934, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 66:533-566. Range appears disjunct N. and S. of Amazon estuaries, where inunguis occurs; see Domning, 1981, Biol. Conserv., 19:85-97. Reviewed by Husar, 1978, Mamm. Species, 93:1- 5. Type locality restricted by Thomas, 1911, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911: 132. PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I and U.S. ESA - Endangered. ISIS NUMBER: 5301417002001002001.

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Sirenia, pp. 305-306 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on pages 305-306, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353046

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