Bibliography Record

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Whitehead, Peter J. P. (detail)
   
1977
The former southern distribution of New World manatees (Trichechus spp.).
Biol. Jour. Linn. Soc. 9: 165-189. 1 fig. 1 pl. June 1977.
–Reviews in detail the accounts of manatees in 16th- and 17th-century (and some later) works on Brazil and adjacent coastal regions, extending the documented former distribution of T. manatus to about 20° S. Concludes that a "monster" killed at São Vicente in 1564 was not a manatee but a pinniped. See also Whitehead (1978) and Faust et al. (2002).

Related Index Records (3)

Brazil
  x * 1977 Whitehead, P.J.P. (early accounts & former southern distr. of manatees; 165-189.)

Trichechus inunguis (Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Thomas and Lydekker, 1897
  x * 1977 Whitehead, P.J.P. (?earliest account that of Carvajal; 169-170.)

Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x * 1977 Whitehead, P.J.P. (Brazil; early accounts & former southern distr.; 165-179, 184-185.)


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