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"Pereira, Manoel Nune"

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 Pereira, Manoel Nunes (detail)
   
1941-43
A pesca no Rio Purús.
A Voz do Mar 20(178): 65-68; 20(179): 98-102; 20(180): 121-124; 20(181): 151-154; 20(182): 189-192; 20(183): 216-218; 23(186): 64-66. Feb. 1941; Mar.-Apr. 1941; May 1941; June 1941; July-Aug. 1941; Sept.-Oct. 1941; Dec. 1943.
–Describes in detail the processing of T. inunguis meat and hide in Brazil, mentions some aspects of hunting methods and natural history (gleaned from hunters), recommends improved methods of processing the hide, and urges certain restrictions on manatee hunting, including a complete ban during the supposed December-February calving season (100-102, 153-154, 218, 65).
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 Pereira, Manoel Nunes (detail)
   
1944
O peixe-boi da Amazônia.
Bol. Minist. Agric. (Rio de Janeiro) 33(5): 21-95. 1 fig. 11 photos. 1 map. May 1944.
–Reset and republished as a monograph in 1945 (Manaus, D.E.I.P.-S.S.A.: 1-180. 1 fig. 13 photos. 1 map. Date "1947" on cover) and again in 1954 (Rio de Janeiro, Minist. Agric., Div. Caça e Pesca), with minor corrections, changes, and errors in the text, additional photographs, an expanded bibliography, and (on p. 62 of the 1954 ed.) a new footnote on vernacular names.
  In this, the most significant work on T. inunguis published up to its time and Pereira's most important contribution on sirs., he gives a detailed account, including history of study (21-37), of the natural history and commercial exploitation of the Amazonian manatee (which he considers to be T. manatus!).
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 Pereira, Manoel Nunes (detail)
   
1954
A pesca na Amazônia. In: Valorização econômica da Amazônia: subsídios para seu planejamento.
Rio de Janeiro, Dept. Impr. Nac. (vi + 476): 267-271.
–Part of a set of documents from a conference held in Rio de Janeiro, Sept.-Nov. 1951. States that the sale of fresh manatee meat and mixira in Amazonian markets has ceased (269), and recommends that reserves for manatees and other threatened species be created in Amazonia (271).
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 Pereira, Manoel Nunes (detail)
   
1956
A Ilha de Marajó: estudo económico-social.
Rio de Janeiro, Minist. Agric., Serv. Inform. Agrícola in cooperation with Div. Caça e Pesca do D.N.P.A. (Série Estudos Brasileiros No. 8): 1-153. Illus.
–Mentions the former hunting of manatees in Marajó (68).
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 Pereira, Manoel Nunes (detail)
   
1967
Moron Guêtá: um decameron indígena.
Rio de Janeiro, Editora Civilização Brasileira S.A.: 1-840 in 2 vols. Illus.
–Mentions the occurrence of manatees in the lower Rio Branco and its tributaries in the Brazilian Amazon (23), and recounts a Tucuna legend of the origin of the manatee (467).
 
 
 Pereira, Manoel Nunes (detail)
   
1974
Panorama da alimentação indígena: comidas, bebidas & tóxicos na Amazónia Brasileira.
Rio de Janeiro, Livr. São José: xv + 412.
–Manatee, 64, 235, 251-258.
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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