Smithsonian Institution, MRC 108 Washington DC 20560-0108
Reference for:
Trichechus manatus
Expert:
Alfred L. Gardner
Notes:
Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
Reference for:
Trichechus manatus
Source(s):
Source:
NODC Taxonomic Code
Acquired:
1996-07-29
Notes:
Reference for:
Trichechus manatus
Source:
U. S. Dept. Interior
Acquired:
1996-07-29
Notes:
Reference for:
Trichechus manatus
Source:
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Program
Acquired:
2001-03-22
Notes:
http://www.fws.gov/endangered/
Reference for:
Trichechus manatus
Source:
2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Acquired:
2007-08-07
Notes:
http://www.redlist.org/
Reference for:
Trichechus manatus
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1987-01-01 / 1987-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Resource Publication, no. 166
Page(s):
79
Publisher:
United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service
Publication Place:
Washington, D.C., USA
ISBN/ISSN:
/
Notes:
Reference for:
Trichechus manatus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2000-01-01 / 2000-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Common Names of Mammals of the World
Page(s):
xiv + 204
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-383-3/
Notes:
With contributions by Bernadette N. Graham, Adam P. Potter, and Mariana M. Upmeyer
Reference for:
Trichechus manatus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1992-01-01 / 1993-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
Page(s):
xviii + 1207
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-217-9/
Notes:
Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
Reference for:
Trichechus manatus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and Sue Ruff, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1999-01-01 / 1999-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
Page(s):
xxv + 750
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-845-2/
Notes:
Reference for:
Trichechus manatus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Rice, Dale W.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1998-01-01 / 1998-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Special Publications of the Society for Marine Mammals, no. 4
Page(s):
ix + 231
Publisher:
The Society for Marine Mammalogy
Publication Place:
Lawrence, Kansas, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-891276-03-4/
Notes:
Reference for:
Trichechus manatus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-10-01 / 2005-10-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2
Page(s):
2142
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-8018-8221-4/
Notes:
Reference for:
Trichechus manatus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Domning, Daryl P.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-09-01 / 2005-09-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. VII. Pleistocene Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 25, no. 3
Page(s):
685-701
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/0272-4634
Notes:
Online ISSN: 1937-2809, available at http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-archive&issn=0272-4634
Reference for:
Trichechus manatus
Trichechus manatus: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Caribbean
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Caribbean Territories / Native
Trichechus manatus: Comments
Comment:
Status: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Vulnerable
Comment:
Comments: See Domning (1981, 1996); reviewed by Husar (1978, Mammalian Species, 93)
Comment:
Domning, an acknowledged expert on these taxa, continues to recognize the two extant subspecies of West Indian Manatee, Trichechus manatus latirostris & T. m. manatus (e.g., Domning 2005), so ITIS is following this view (which coincides with that of Rice 1998)