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Best, Robin Christopher (detail)
   
1981
Foods and feeding habits of wild and captive Sirenia.
Mammal Review 11(1): 3-29. 12 tabs. 2 figs.
–Detailed review of diets, feeding behavior, food consumption, nutrition, and digestive physiology of the five Recent species, listing all reported food items consumed in the wild or in captivity, with analyses of composition and digestibility for some of them.

Related Index Records (166)

Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
  x * 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 7-24.)

Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
  x * 1981 Best, R.C. (review of diets of captive sirs.; 13, 15, 17-24.)

Digestive System
(SEE ALSO: Excretion and Defecation; Food; Mastication; Parasites; Parasitology; Sense Organs)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review of sir. digestive anatomy & physiology; 4-6, 11, 17-18, 21, 23-24.)

Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (diet & nutrition; 3-6, 13-15, 21-24.)

Excretion and Defecation
(SEE ALSO: Salinity Tolerance; Urogenital System)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (Trichechus; diarrhea of calves on powdered milk formula; 21.)

Food
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive; Captivity, Sirenians in; Digestive System; Food Plants; Weed Control) (NOTE: Plants reported as part of the captive but not the natural diet of sirs. will not necessarily be found under Food Plants. Papers referring to them are, however, indexed here.)
  x * 1981 Best, R.C. (wild & captive sir. diets & nutrition; 3-29.)

Food Plants: Agarum gmelini
(brown alga; Laminariaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 16.)

Food Plants: Agarum pertusum
(brown alga; Laminariaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 16.)

Food Plants: Agarum turneri
(brown alga; Laminariaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 16.)

Food Plants: Alaria esculenta
(brown alga; Alariaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 16.)

Food Plants: Alternanthera philoxeroides
(Amaranthaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8.)

Food Plants: Anabaena
(blue-green alga; Nostocaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (Florida; 8.)

Food Plants: Annona glabra
(Annonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. ("Anona"; review; 19.)

Food Plants: Annona reticulata
(Annonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. ("Anona"; review; 19.)

Food Plants: Artocarpus altilis
(breadfruit; Moraceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 19.)

Food Plants: Artocarpus integrifolia
(Moraceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 19.)

Food Plants: Avicennia nitida
(Verbenaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 7, 9.)

Food Plants: Brachiaria plantaginea
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Cabomba
(Cabombaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 7, 11-13, 17, 20-21.)

Food Plants: Cabomba aquatica
(Cabombaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8, 20.)

Food Plants: Canna indica
(Cannaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Caulerpa racemosa
(green alga; Caulerpaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Caulerpa serrulata
(green alga; Caulerpaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Caulerpa taxifolia
(green alga; Caulerpaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Cecropia
(Moraceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 10.)

Food Plants: Centrosema brasilianum
(Fabaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Ceramium
(red alga; Ceramiaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Ceratophyllum demersum
(Ceratophyllaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 7-8, 12, 20.)

Food Plants: Chaetomorpha
(green alga; Cladophoraceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Cladophora
(green alga; Cladophoraceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8.)

Food Plants: Constantinea rosa-marina
(red alga; Weeksiaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 16.)

Food Plants: Cymodocea angustata
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Cymodocea nodosa
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 10.)

Food Plants: Cymodocea rotundata
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14, 23.)

Food Plants: Cymodocea serrulata
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Cyperus
(Cyperaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8.)

Food Plants: Cyperus radiatus
(Cyperaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Diplanthera wrightii
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 9.)

Food Plants: Dumontia fucicola
(red alga; Dumontiaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 16.)

Food Plants: Echinochloa polystachya
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 10, 12, 20.)

Food Plants: Echinochloa pyramidalis
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Ectocarpus
(brown alga; Ectocarpaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8.)

Food Plants: Eichhornia azurea
(Pontederiaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 10.)

Food Plants: Eichhornia crassipes
(Pontederiaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 7, 9-13, 17-18, 20.)

Food Plants: Eleocharis acicularis
(Cyperaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8, 12, 20.)

Food Plants: Elodea densa
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8, 12, 20.)

Food Plants: Enhalus acoroides
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Enhalus koenigii
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Enteromorpha
(alga)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8.)

Food Plants: Fucus vesiculosus
(brown alga; Fucaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Gracilaria verrucosa
(red alga; Gracilariaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8.)

Food Plants: Halodule pinifolia
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Halodule uninervis
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14, 23.)

Food Plants: Halophila decipiens
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Halophila engelmanni
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8.)

Food Plants: Halophila ovalis
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Halophila ovata
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Halophila spinulosa
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Halophila stipulacea
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Hibiscus tiliaceus
(Malvaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 19.)

Food Plants: Hydrilla verticillata
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 7-8, 11-12.)

Food Plants: Hymenachne amplexicaulis
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 9-10, 12, 20.)

Food Plants: Hypnea
(red alga; Hypneaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Ipomoea aquatica
(Convolvulaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 7-8, 10, 20, 23.)

Food Plants: Kyllingia brevifolia
(= Killingia) (Cyperaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Lactuca sativa
(lettuce; Asteraceae) (SEE ALSO under Food)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 19, 22.)

Food Plants: Laguncularia racemosa
(Combretaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 7-8.)

Food Plants: Laminaria saccharina
(brown alga; Laminariaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 16.)

Food Plants: Laurencia
(red alga; Rhodophyta)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Leersia hexandra
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 10, 20.)

Food Plants: Luziola spruceana
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 9-10, 20.)

Food Plants: Machaerium wrightii
(Fabaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8.)

Food Plants: Medicago sativa
(alfalfa; Leguminosae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 19.)

Food Plants: Montrichardia arborescens
(Araceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 7-8, 10, 20.)

Food Plants: Mougeotia
(green alga; Zygnemataceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8.)

Food Plants: Myriophyllum spicatum
(Haloragaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 7-8, 12, 20.)

Food Plants: Najas guadalupensis
(Najadaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8, 12, 20.)

Food Plants: Navicula
(diatom; Naviculaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8.)

Food Plants: Nelumbium speciosum
(Nelumbonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. ("Nelumbo speciosum"; Guyana, Suriname; 8.)

Food Plants: Nelumbo
(Nelumbonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Nereocystis luetkeana
(brown alga; Lessoniaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 16.)

Food Plants: Nymphaea
(Nymphaeaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 10, 17, 20.)

Food Plants: Operculina alata
(Convolvulaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 10.)

Food Plants: Oryza latifolia
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Oryza perennis
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 10, 12.)

Food Plants: Oscillatoria
(blue-green alga; Oscillatoriaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8.)

Food Plants: Panicum apressum
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Panicum gladiatum
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Panicum hemitomon
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 9.)

Food Plants: Panicum jumentorum
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 9.)

Food Plants: Panicum laxum
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Panicum molle
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 9.)

Food Plants: Panicum purpurascens
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 7, 9-10, 13, 20.)

Food Plants: Panicum spectabile
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Panicum zizanioides
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Paspalum acuminatum
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Paspalum fasciculatum
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 10, 12.)

Food Plants: Paspalum paniculatum
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 9.)

Food Plants: Paspalum pusillum
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Paspalum repens
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 9-10, 12, 20.)

Food Plants: Paspalum vergatum
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 9.)

Food Plants: Phalaris aquatica
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Phaseolus ovatus
(Leguminosae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 10.)

Food Plants: Phragmites communis
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 9.)

Food Plants: Phyllospadix
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 16.)

Food Plants: Pistia stratiotes
(Araceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 7-8, 10, 12-13, 17, 20.)

Food Plants: Polygonum senegalense
(Polygonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (West Africa; 10.)

Food Plants: Pontederia
(Pontederiaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 9.)

Food Plants: Pontederia cordata
(Pontederiaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 10.)

Food Plants: Pontederia rotundifolia
(Pontederiaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 9, 20.)

Food Plants: Posidonia australis
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Potamogeton pectinatus
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 9, 11, 20.)

Food Plants: Reussia rotundifolia
(Pontederiaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 10.)

Food Plants: Rhabdadenia biflora
(Apocynaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8.)

Food Plants: Rhizoclonium
(green alga; Cladophoraceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. ("Rhizoclinium"; review; 8, 12.)

Food Plants: Rhizophora mangle
(Rhizophoraceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 7, 9-10.)

Food Plants: Ruppia maritima
(Ruppiaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 7, 9, 21.)

Food Plants: Sabal palmetto
(Palmae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 19.)

Food Plants: Sagittaria
(Alismataceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8, 12, 20.)

Food Plants: Salvinia
(Salviniaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 21.)

Food Plants: Salvinia auriculata
(Salviniaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (TI; Brazil; 10, 12.)

Food Plants: Salvinia minor
(Salviniaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (TI; Brazil; 10.)

Food Plants: Salvinia rotundifolia
(Salviniaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 9.)

Food Plants: Salvinia sprucei
(Salviniaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (TI; Brazil; 10.)

Food Plants: Sambucus canadensis
(Caprifoliaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8.)

Food Plants: Sargassum
(brown alga; Sargassaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Scirpus
(Cyperaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8.)

Food Plants: Scleria cyperina
(Cyperaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Scleria luteola
(Cyperaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Scleria pterota
(Cyperaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Spartina brasiliense
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 9.)

Food Plants: Spirogyra
(green alga; Zygnemataceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8, 12.)

Food Plants: Spyridia
(red alga; Rhodophyta)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Stypopodium zonale
(brown alga; Phaeophyta)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Syringodium filiforme
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 9.)

Food Plants: Syringodium isoetifolium
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14, 23.)

Food Plants: Thalassia hemprichii
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Thalassia testudinum
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8.)

Food Plants: Thalassiophyllum clathrus
(brown alga; Laminariaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 16.)

Food Plants: Thalassodendron ciliatum
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14, 23.)

Food Plants: Theobroma cacao
(cocoa; Sterculiaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 19.)

Food Plants: Theobroma grandiflorum
(cocoa; Sterculiaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 19.)

Food Plants: Tradescantia diuretica
(Commelinaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Typha augustifolia
(Typhaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 9.)

Food Plants: Typha domingensis
(Typhaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 21.)

Food Plants: Udotea argentea
(green alga; Udoteaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Ulva
(green alga; Ulvaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Utricularia
(Lentibulariaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 8, 20.)

Food Plants: Utricularia foliosa
(Lentibulariaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 10, 12.)

Food Plants: Utricularia minor
(Lentibulariaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 10.)

Food Plants: Vallisneria neotropicalis
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 7-8.)

Food Plants: Vallisneria spiralis
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Vaucheria
(yellow-green alga; Vaucheriaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (Florida; 8.)

Food Plants: Vigna luteola
(Fabaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 20.)

Food Plants: Vossia cuspidata
(Gramineae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 10.)

Food Plants: Zostera capensis
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Zostera capricornis
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14.)

Food Plants: Zostera marina
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review; 14, 20, 23.)

Growth Rates
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (TI; in capt., Manaus; 0.8 kg/week on milk diet; 21.)

Hydrodamalis gigas (Zimmermann, 1780) Palmer, 1895
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (diet & nutrition; 3-4, 15-17.)

Milk
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Ingestive)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (review of natural milk & artificial formulas; 18, 21.)

Pathology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Biochemistry; Natural Death or Injury; Parasites; Parasitology; Pollution, Effects of; Temperature, Effects of; Teratology; Virology)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (cutaneous infections caused by malnutrition; 21.)

Temperature, Effects of
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape; Migration & Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Pollution, Effects of; Thermoregulation)
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (Trichechus; effects on digestion rate; 21.)

Trichechus inunguis (Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Thomas and Lydekker, 1897
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (diet & nutrition; 3-4, 7-13, 15, 18-24.)

Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (diet & nutrition; 3-13, 15, 17-24.)

Trichechus senegalensis Link, 1795
  x 1981 Best, R.C. (diet & nutrition; 3-7, 10, 15, 21.)


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