Gunter, Gordon

7 publications

Gunter, Gordon (detail)
1941aOccurrence of the manatee in the United States, with records from Texas.
Jour. Mamm. 22(1): 60-64. Feb. 14, 1941.
—Reviews miscellaneous records of manatees from Texas, Louisiana, and northern Mexico, and comments on their tooth-row structure, bone density, temperature tolerance, and distribution. Concludes that manatees in Texas are strays from Mexico and that a temperature barrier prevents a northward extension of their range.
Gunter, Gordon (detail)
1941bThe manatee, a rare Texas mammal.
Proc. Texas Acad. Sci. 24: 12-13.
—Essentially an abstr. of Gunter (1941a).
Gunter, Gordon (detail)
1942Further miscellaneous notes on American manatees.
Jour. Mamm. 23(1): 89-90. Feb. 14, 1942.
—Discusses specimens from Texas, Florida, and elsewhere, and their temperature tolerance and distribution.
Gunter, Gordon (detail)
1944Texas manatees.
Texas Game & Fish. 2(9): 9, 11. Aug. 1944.
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Gunter, Gordon (detail)
1954Mammals of the Gulf of Mexico. In: P. S. Galtsoff (coordinator), Gulf of Mexico, its origin, waters, and marine life.
Fishery Bull. Fish & Wildl. Serv. Vol. 55 (= Fishery Bull. 89): 543-551.
—Account of the distribution and habits of T. manatus (543-545). Includes an excerpt from an unpubl. MS. by C. M. Scammon on two captive Florida manatees observed at Key West in 1880 (544-545).
Gunter, Gordon; Corcoran, Gerald (detail)
1981Mississippi manatees.
Gulf Res. Rept. 7(1): 97-99.
—Argues against recognition of the separate subspecies T. m. manatus and T. m. latirostris; summarizes manatee records on the northern Gulf Coast and reports new Mississippi occurrences in 1979 and 1980 (the first reports from this state).
Gunter, Gordon; Perry, Allison (detail)
1983A 1981 sighting of Trichechus manatus in Mississippi.
Jour. Mamm. 64(3): 513. Aug. 18, 1983.
—Reports a manatee caught in a shrimp trawl in the Mississippi Sound on Dec. 3, 1981.