WoRMS taxon details
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 159509
AphiaID: 159509
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Sirenia (Order) > Trichechidae (Family) > Trichechus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||
| Parent | Trichechus Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] basis of record: Wilson D.E. & Reeder D.A.M. (1993). Mammals species of the world. A taxonomic and geographic reference. Second edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1206 pp. [details] additional source: Domning, Daryl P. 1996. Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology Number 80. , available online at http://www.sil.si.edu/SmithsonianContributions/Paleobiology/sc_RecordSingle.cfm?filename=SCtP-0080 [details] [full text] additional source: Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] | |||||||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Trichechus manatus latirostris (Harlan, 1824) Subspecies Trichechus manatus manatus Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Caribbean Sea [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North East South America [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Harpactichechus manatorum Ortiz-Lalana & Torres-Fundora, 1992 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (167 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (273 nucleotides; 131 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS | |||||||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: in coastal marine, brackish, and freshwater areas, tropical and subtropical [details] | |||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159509 | |||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Self-Sullivan, C. (2013). Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159509 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||||
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