Educational resources on Amazonian Manatee

Amazonian Manatee or Trichechus inunguis is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Vulnerable due to A1cd. IUCN Profile of the Amazonian Manatee

Academic web links for the Amazonian Manatee.

TAXONOMY OF MANATEES
Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis) West African Manatee (Trichechus seneglaensis) In North America, the Florida manatee is the most
www.bio.davidson.edu/people/midorcas/animalphysiology/websites/2003/Harshaw/page2.htm

ADW: Trichechus inunguis: Information
Trichechus inunguis Amazonian manatee ... Amaxonian manatees inhabit the dense vegetation in blackwater lakes, oxbows, and
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Trichechus_inunguis.html

ADW: Trichechus_inunguis.jpg
What's in a Scientific Name? Authority Lists: Where We Get Our Names Name, Rank ... Trichechus inunguis (Amazonian manatee)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/Grzimek_mammals/Trichechidae/Trichechus_in...

ASK Archive 2003: Manatee origins
...the U.S. and along the coastal and inland waterways of Central American and along the northern coast of South America, is related to the West African manatee, the Amazonian manatee
whale.wheelock.edu/archives/ask03/0158.html

ASK Archive 2001: Manatee, life span and distribution
The Amazonian manatee is found in South America, and the West African manatee is found in Africa. Manatees are also related to the dugong, which
whale.wheelock.edu/archives/ask01/0086.html

Ecomorphology & Comparative Physiology Laboratory > Videos
Amazonian manatee Trichechus inunguis : West Indian manatee Trichechus manatus : African manatee Trichechus senegalensis
www.marinebiology.edu/Marshall/video.htm

Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Selected References on the Sirenia: Dugong ...
...(Amazonian Manatee) (Available from the Secretary of the American Society of Mammalogists.) l978 Dugong dugon.
www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/sirenia.htm

Manatee Fact Sheet
They are related to the West African manatee, Amazonian manatee, dugong, and Stellar's sea cow (extinct). There are a minimum of 1800 West Indian manatees left in the US, but
www.fiu.edu/~fuentes/manfact_F.htm

ASK Archive: Manatee questions
African = manatee, the Amazonian manatee (found in the Amazon River in = South American),=20 and the dugong, found in the Indo-Pacific region of the=20 world.
whale.wheelock.edu/archives/ask99/0636.html

Jacksonville University :: Natural History
Amazonian Manatee - Trichechus inunguis, the smallest of the living manatees in length with the longest recorded measurement only 2.8 meters, lives in the Amazon basin in South
www.ju.edu/marco/history_traits.aspx