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"Varela, René A."

Varela, René A.: SEE Falcón et al., 2003. (detail)
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 Falcón-Matos, Limarie; Mignucci-Giannoni, Antonio A.; Toyos-Gonzáles, Gian M.; Bossart, Gregory D.; Meisner, René A.; Varela, René A. (detail)
   
2003
Evidence of a shark attack on a West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) in Puerto Rico.
Jour. Neotropical Mammalogy (Mastozoologia Neotropical) 10(1): 6-11. 1 fig. Jan.-June 2003.
–Spanish summ. Reports healed scars from a bite of a large shark (probably a tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier) on an adult female manatee that died of intestinal impaction and respiratory distress of uncertain relation to the shark bite. This is the first confirmed report of an ante-mortem shark attack on a manatee.
 
 
 Bossart, Gregory D.; Meisner, René A.; Rommel, Sentiel A.; Lightsey, Jessica D.; Varela, René A.; Defran, R. H. (detail)
   
2004
Pathologic findings in Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris).
Aquatic Mammals 30(3): 434-440. 1 tab. 1 fig. 1 appendix.
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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