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Alternate Title
Mississippi Manatees
Document Type
Short Communication
Abstract
The taxonomy and the distribution of the American manatee Trichechus manatusare reviewed briefly. Its distribution extends from 50°N on the eastern coast of North America to 19°S in South America. Records from the northern Gulf coast are given including sightings from Mississippi in January 1979, and one from the open ocean off Louisiana in July 1979. A live manatee was captured in the Gulfport, Mississippi, Harbor in January 1979, and was transported to Sea World in Orlando, Florida. It still lives there in good condition. A carcass of a female was found near the eastem end of Ship Island in January 1980, and was autopsied at Sea World.
First Page
97
Last Page
99
DOI Link
Recommended Citation
Gunter, G. and G. Corcoran.
1981.
Mississippi Manatees.
Gulf Research Reports
7
(1):
97-99.
Retrieved from https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr/vol7/iss1/16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18785/grr.0701.16
