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Aragão, Amazonas de (detail)
   
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).

Related Index Records (7)

Brazil
  x 1954 Aragão, A. de (TI; hunting; 54-56.)

Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
  x 1954 Aragão, A. de (TI; Brazil; harpoons; 54-56.)

Manatus Brünnich, 1771
(= Trichechus)
  x 1954 Aragão, A. de (Brazil; hunting; 54-56.)

Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
  x 1954 Aragão, A. de (TI; sliding backwards on submergence; 55.)

Trichechus inunguis (Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Thomas and Lydekker, 1897
  x v 1954 Aragão, A. de ("Manatus"; Brazil; hunting; 54-56.)

Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 1954 Aragão, A. de (m55.)

Vernacular Names
  x 1954 Aragão, A. de (TI; Brazil; guarabá; 54.)


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