Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia 
Bibliography Record
| x | Bessac, H.; Villiers, A. | ||
| 1948 | Le lamantin du Sènègal. La Nature (Paris) 76(3158): 188-189. 4 figs. June 1948. –Fascinating gen. acc. of T. senegalensis, including migrations, hunting methods, native beliefs, and natural history data (much of doubtful accuracy) supplied by a native informant. | ||
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Africa
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean; Egypt; Madagascar; Red Sea)
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean; Egypt; Madagascar; Red Sea)
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; Senegal; 188-189.) |
Age Determination
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding; Embryology & Ontogeny; Growth Rates; Population Biology)
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding; Embryology & Ontogeny; Growth Rates; Population Biology)
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; lifespan ?100 years, 188; "swallow one pebble per year", 189.) |
Behavior, Agonistic and Territorial
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; cow believed to kill or drive off calf if mated again before weaning; 188.) |
Behavior, Epimeletic
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; believed to nurse >1 year unless mated again; 188.) |
Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; believed to swallow 1 pebble per year; 189.) |
Birth and Breeding
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; gestation "12 months"; 188.) |
Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; Dakar, Senegal; 189.) |
Digestive System
(SEE ALSO: Excretion and Defecation; Food; Mastication; Parasites; Parasitology; Sense Organs)
(SEE ALSO: Excretion and Defecation; Food; Mastication; Parasites; Parasitology; Sense Organs)
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; believed to have an abdominal sac containing swallowed pebbles; 189.) |
Economic Uses
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; Senegal; unrealized plan to raise manatees for meat during World War I; m189.) |
Food Plants: Cymodocea nodosa
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (Senegal; 188.) |
Food Plants: Nymphaea
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; in capt.; 188.) |
Food Plants: Polygonum senegalense
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (Senegal; 188.) |
Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; Senegal; harpoons, nets, shark nets, superstitions; 188-189.) |
Locomotion
(SEE ALSO: Respiration and Diving)
(SEE ALSO: Respiration and Diving)
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; crossing earthen dams during migration; 188.) |
Medicinal Applications
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use)
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use)
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; fat; for baldness & for "strangles" in horses; 189.) |
Migration and Movements
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Aggregative; Behavior, Shelter-seeking; Locomotion; Temperature, Effects of)
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Aggregative; Behavior, Shelter-seeking; Locomotion; Temperature, Effects of)
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; Senegal; entering lakes in rainy season, ascending rivers in dry season; 188.) |
Natural Enemies
(SEE ALSO: Natural Death or Injury)
(SEE ALSO: Natural Death or Injury)
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; Senegal; bitten by small fish, especially "Silures", but "friendly" with crocodiles; 189.) |
Pathology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Biochemistry; Natural Death or Injury; Parasites; Parasitology; Pollution, Effects of; Temperature, Effects of; Teratology; Virology)
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Biochemistry; Natural Death or Injury; Parasites; Parasitology; Pollution, Effects of; Temperature, Effects of; Teratology; Virology)
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; boils, treated with mercurochrome & penicillin; 189.) |
Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use; Mermaid Legend)
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use; Mermaid Legend)
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; Senegal; fear of water exhaled by wounded manatee; hunting rituals; legendary origin of manatee-hunting taboo among Peulhs; 189.) |
Salinity Tolerance
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; ?unable to enter fresh water if born in salt water; migration affected by salinity; drinking fresh water; 188.) |
Tooth Replacement
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; said to be "completely toothless" in old age; 188.) |
Trichechus senegalensis Link, 1795
| x | * | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (gen. acc.; 188-189.) |
Vernacular Names
| x | 1948 | Bessac & Villiers (TS; Senegal; léréo, gabou; 188.) |