Bibliography Record

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Beusse, D. O., Jr.; Asper, Edward D.; Searles, Stan W. (detail)
   
1981a
Some causes of manatee mortality. In: R. L. Brownell, Jr., & K. Ralls (eds.), The West Indian manatee in Florida. Proceedings of a workshop held in Orlando, Florida 27-29 March 1978 (q.v.).
Tallahassee, Florida Dept. Nat. Res. (iv + 154): 98-101. 1 tab. 1 fig.
–Lists carcasses of T. manatus recovered in Florida, 1974-77, and gives detailed findings on the three that were fresh enough for necropsy. One died of septicemia with pneumonia after entanglement in a crab-trap line, another from septicemia without obvious wounds, and a third from propeller cuts and pneumonia. See also Irvine, Odell & Campbell (1981).

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Accidental Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Conservation; Hunting and Capture; Natural Death or Injury)
  x 1981a Beusse et al. (TM; Florida; 1974-77; 98-101.)

Bacteriology
(SEE ALSO Virology)
  x 1981a Beusse et al. (TM; Florida; Edwardsiella, Citrobacter, Proteus; 101.)

Florida
  x 1981a Beusse et al. (TML; mortality, 1974-77; 98-101.)

Parasites: Plicatolabia hagenbecki (Khalil and Vogelsang, 1932) Mosgovoy, 1951
(Nematoda; = Heterocheilus tunicatus)
  x 1981a Beusse et al. ("Plicatolabia sp."; TM, stomach & intestines; Florida; 98.)

Pathology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Biochemistry; Natural Death or Injury; Parasites; Parasitology; Pollution, Effects of; Temperature, Effects of; Teratology; Virology)
  x 1981a Beusse et al. (TML; Florida; septicemia, pneumonia; 98-101.)

Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 1981a Beusse et al. (Florida; mortality, 1974-77; 98-101.)


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