WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Manatus exunguis Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Pelzeln, A. V. (1883). Brasilianische Säugethiere, Resultate von Joh. Natterer's Reisen in den Jahren 1817-1835. <em>Verh. k.k. zool.-botan. Ges. 33, Beiheft.</em> [details]
original description
(of Manatus australis Retzius, 1794) Retzius, A. J. (1794). Anmärkningar vid Genus Trichechi. <em>Kongl. Vetenskaps Academiens nya handlingar.</em> 2(15): 286-300. [details]
basis of record
Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. <em>In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp.</em> 723--743., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]
additional source
Domning, D. P. (1996). Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology.</em> (80): 1-611., available online at http://www.sil.si.edu/SmithsonianContributions/Paleobiology/sc_RecordSingle.cfm?filename=SCtP-0080 [details]
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]
Unverified
Distribution South America in freshwater (Amazon River drainige, possibly also in Orinoco) [details]
From editor or global species database
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