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x Mignucci-Giannoni, Antonio A.; Beck, Cathy A.
  1998
The diet of the manatee (Trichechus manatus) in Puerto Rico.
Mar. Mamm. Sci. 14(2): 394-397. 1 tab. Mar. 31, 1998.
–Stomach contents of 8 manatees included mainly Thalassia testudinum, Halodule wrightii, and Syringodium filiforme, with small amounts of mangroves, algae, hydroids, and ascidians.

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Food
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive; Captivity, Sirenians in; Digestive System; Food Plants; Weed Control) (NOTE: Plants reported as part of the captive but not the natural diet of sirs. will not necessarily be found under Food Plants. Papers referring to them are, however, indexed here.)
x  1998Mignucci G. & Beck (Puerto Rico; plants, hydroids, ascidians; 395-396.)
Food Plants: Caulerpa prolifera
x  1998Mignucci G. & Beck (Puerto Rico; 395-396.)
Food Plants: Halodule wrightii
x  1998Mignucci G. & Beck (Puerto Rico; 395-396.)
Food Plants: Mangroves
(SEE ALSO: Avicennia, Conocarpus, Laguncularia, Rhizophora)
x  1998Mignucci G. & Beck (Puerto Rico; 395-396.)
Food Plants: Syringodium filiforme
x  1998Mignucci G. & Beck (Puerto Rico; 395-396.)
Food Plants: Thalassia testudinum
x  1998Mignucci G. & Beck (Puerto Rico; 394-396.)
Food Plants: Ulva lactuca
x  1998Mignucci G. & Beck (Puerto Rico; 395-396.)
Puerto Rico
x  1998Mignucci G. & Beck (TMM; diet; 394-397.)
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
x  1998Mignucci G. & Beck (Puerto Rico; diet; 394-397.)