Bibliography Record

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 Snipes, Robert L. (detail)
   
1984
Anatomy of the cecum of the West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus (Mammalia, Sirenia).
Zoomorphology (Berlin) 104(2): 67-78. 2 tabs. 10 figs. Mar. 1984.
–Describes the gross and microscopic anatomy of the cecum; notes keratinized stratified squamous epithelium, perhaps a protection against bulky roughage; considers manatees to be colon rather than cecum fermenters, but their fermentation is probably incomplete; considers the morphology of their cecum and intestine to be generally primitive.

Related Index Records (6)

Circulatory System
(including lymphatic system)
  x 1984 Snipes, R.L. (TM; arteries to cecum; 69-70.)
Digestive System
(SEE ALSO: Excretion and Defecation; Food; Mastication; Parasites; Parasitology; Sense Organs)
  x * 1984 Snipes, R.L. (TM; cecum; 67-78.)
Florida
  x 1984 Snipes, R.L. (TML; cecum; 67-68.)
Histology
(SEE ALSO: Skeleton; other organ systems)
  x 1984 Snipes, R.L. (TM; cecum; 71-74.)
Salinity Tolerance
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
  x 1984 Snipes, R.L. (TM; suggests large intestine important in water balance; m76.)
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 1984 Snipes, R.L. (cecum; 67-78.)

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