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Perkins, George A. (detail)
   
1848
[Account of a Manatus from West Africa.]
Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 2: 198-199.
–Describes a small manatee captured in the Caracalla River, Liberia. The name Manatus nasutus is proposed for it in a footnote signed "J. W." [Jeffries Wyman] (199); see J. Wyman (1848). (The extant type material is the skull lacking the mandible, MCZ 9368.) Interestingly, Perkins did not find any nails on the flippers; he also failed to recognize the respiratory diaphragm.

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Africa
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean; Egypt; Madagascar; Red Sea)
  x * 1848 Perkins, G.A. (Manatus nasutus, n.sp.; West Africa; 198-199.)

Manatus nasutus Wyman in Perkins, 1848
(= Trichechus senegalensis)
  x v * 1848 Perkins, G.A. (species described but not named; 198-199.)


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