Whitehead, Peter J. P.

2 publications

Whitehead, Peter J. P. (detail)
1977The former southern distribution of New World manatees (Trichechus spp.).
Biol. Jour. Linn. Soc. 9: 165-189. 1 fig. 1 pl. June 1977.
—Reviews in detail the accounts of manatees in 16th- and 17th-century (and some later) works on Brazil and adjacent coastal regions, extending the documented former distribution of T. manatus to about 20° S. Concludes that a "monster" killed at São Vicente in 1564 was not a manatee but a pinniped. See also Whitehead (1978) and Faust et al. (2002).
Whitehead, Peter J. P. (detail)
1978Registros antigos da presença do peixe-boi do Caribe (Trichechus manatus) no Brasil.
Acta Amazonica 8(3): 497-506. Sept. 1978.
—Recapitulates much of the information in Whitehead (1977), and adds further citations of early works that mention Brazilian manatees. Calls attention to a curious lack of manatee records from the coast between the Rios São Francisco and São Luis, and briefly summarizes the natural history data contained in these early reports.