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Mendes, Amando (detail)
   
1948
Vamos criar o peixe-boi na represa de Santo Amaro?
Chácaras e Quintais (São Paulo) 78(3): 325-327. 3 figs. Sept. 15, 1948.
–Pop. acc. of hunting Amazonian manatees (called T. manatus) with harpoons and nets, and the use of their meat, oil, and hides. Repeats his earlier suggestion (Mendes, 1938) that manatees be raised commercially.

Related Index Records (8)

Brazil
  x 1948 Mendes, A. (TI; econ. use; 325-327.)

Economic Uses
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
  x 1948 Mendes, A. (TI; Brazil; meat, oil, hide; 325-327.)

Food Plants: Panicum spectabile
(Gramineae)
  x 1948 Mendes, A. (TI; Brazil; 326.)

Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
  x 1948 Mendes, A. (TI; Brazil; harpoons, nets; 326.)

Manatus inunguis Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883
(= Trichechus inunguis)
  x 1948 Mendes, A. (syn. of Trichechus manatus; m325.)

Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
  x 1948 Mendes, A. (TI; sliding backwards on submergence; 326.)

Trichechus inunguis (Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Thomas and Lydekker, 1897
  x 1948 Mendes, A. ("T. manatus"; Brazil; hunting, econ. use; 325-327.)

Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 1948 Mendes, A. (used as the "correct" name for the Amazonian manatee; 325.)


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