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"Whitehead, Peter J."

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 Whitehead, Peter J. P. (detail)
   
1977
The former southern distribution of New World manatees (Trichechus spp.).
Biol. Jour. Linn. Soc. 9: 165-189. 1 fig. 1 pl. June 1977.
–Reviews in detail the accounts of manatees in 16th- and 17th-century (and some later) works on Brazil and adjacent coastal regions, extending the documented former distribution of T. manatus to about 20° S. Concludes that a "monster" killed at São Vicente in 1564 was not a manatee but a pinniped. See also Whitehead (1978) and Faust et al. (2002).
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 Whitehead, Peter J. P. (detail)
   
1978
Registros antigos da presença do peixe-boi do Caribe (Trichechus manatus) no Brasil.
Acta Amazonica 8(3): 497-506. Sept. 1978.
–Recapitulates much of the information in Whitehead (1977), and adds further citations of early works that mention Brazilian manatees. Calls attention to a curious lack of manatee records from the coast between the Rios São Francisco and São Luis, and briefly summarizes the natural history data contained in these early reports.
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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