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Gray, John Edward (detail)
   
1865
On the species of manatees (Manatus), and on the difficulty of distinguishing such species by osteological characters.
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3)15(86): 130-139. Feb. 1865.
–Reviews in detail the osteological material described by earlier authors, and concludes from study of the available samples that M. senegalensis and M. americanus are distinct and the only species existing in West Africa and the Caribbean, respectively.

Related Index Records (10)

Manatus africanus Oken, 1816
(= Trichechus senegalensis)
  x 1865 Gray, J.E. (lapsus for M. senegalensis; 137.)

Manatus americanus (Link, 1795) Illiger, 1815
(= Trichechus manatus; also used by many authors for T. inunguis)
  x * 1865 Gray, J.E. (comp. w/ M. senegalensis; 131, 134-138.)

Manatus australis Retzius, 1794
(= Trichechus manatus, in part; Trichechus senegalensis, in part; also used by many authors for T. inunguis)
  x 1865 Gray, J.E. (syn. of M. americanus; m131, m133, m135.)

Manatus fluviatilis Olfers, 1818
(= Trichechus m. manatus)
  x 1865 Gray, J.E. (syn. of M. americanus; m135.)

Manatus latirostris Harlan, 1824
(= Trichechus manatus)
  x 1865 Gray, J.E. (syn. of M. americanus; 131-132, 135.)

Manatus nasutus Wyman in Perkins, 1848
(= Trichechus senegalensis)
  x 1865 Gray, J.E. (syn. of M. senegalensis; m132, m134.)

Manatus oweni Du Chaillu, 1861
(= Trichechus senegalensis)
  x 1865 Gray, J.E. (syn. of M. senegalensis; 133-134.)

Manatus senegalensis Desmarest, 1817
(homonym of Trichechus senegalensis Link, 1795)
  x * 1865 Gray, J.E. (comp. w/ M. americanus; 131-138.)

Manatus vogelii Owen, 1856
(= Trichechus senegalensis)
  x 1865 Gray, J.E. (syn. of M. senegalensis; 133-134.)

Skeleton
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
  x 1865 Gray, J.E. (TS, TM; 130-138.)


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