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x Mackay-Sim, Alan; Duvall, David; Graves, Brent M.
  1985
The West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) lacks a vomeronasal organ.
Brain Behav. Evol. 27(2-4): 186-194. 3 figs.
–Reports that a vomeronasal organ and nasopalatine ducts are absent in Florida manatees, but some olfactory epithelium and a rudimentary olfactory bulb are present.

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Brain and Nervous System
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs)
x  1985Mackay-Sim et al. (TM; rudimentary olfactory bulb present; m187-190.)
Histology
(SEE ALSO: Skeleton; other organ systems)
x  1985Mackay-Sim et al. (TM; olfactory epithelium; 187-191.)
Respiratory System
x  1985Mackay-Sim et al. (TM; serial sections of nasal cavity; 188-189.)
Sense Organs
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception; Brain and Nervous System; Digestive System; Skeleton; Sound Production)
x  1985Mackay-Sim et al. (TML lacks vomeronasal organ but has olfactory epithelium; 186-194.)
Skeleton
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
x  1985Mackay-Sim et al. (TML; absence of nasopalatine ducts; 187-189.)
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
x  1985Mackay-Sim et al. (vomeronasal organ absent; 186-194.)