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"Aragão, Amazonas de"

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1954
Pescarias fluviais no Brasil. Ed. 2.
São Paulo, Edições Melhoramentos: 1-158. Illus.
–First ed., 162 pp., 1947. Account of the harpooning of an Amazon "Manatus", with a figure of "Trichechus manatus" (54-56). Mentions the use of nostril plugs for killing manatees (56), and manatees' habit of submerging by "sliding backward" (55).
Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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