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x Holton, Isaac F.
  1857
New Granada: twenty months in the Andes.
New York, Harper & Bros.: 1-605.
–P. 46: {"Next comes a pond that I suspect is brackish, La Laguna de Tesca. Your peon will tell you strange stories of the viviparous fish - manati - with women's breasts, found there. It is the Manatus Americanus, a mammal. This is Herndon's cow-fish, a staple article of food on the Amazon, but not often caught here [near Cartagena, Colombia]. No wonder that its meat is not like fish, for it is no more a fish than a seal or a whale is."}

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Colombia
x  1857Holton, I.F. (TMM; Laguna de Tesca, Cartagena; 46.)
Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
x  1857Holton, I.F. (Trichechus; Colombia, Brazil; m46.)
Manatus americanus (Link, 1795) Illiger, 1815
x  1857Holton, I.F. ([= TM] Colombia; 46.)