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x Wavrin, Marquis de
  1939
Les bêtes sauvages de l'Amazonie et des autres régions de l'Amérique du Sud.
Paris, Payot: 1-301. 24 pls. 1 map.
–General and often inaccurate account of manatees and manatee hunting in northern South America and Amazonia; does not distinguish between T. manatus and T. inunguis (194-196).

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Colombia
x  1939Wavrin, M. de (Trichechus; various localities; 194.)
Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
x  1939Wavrin, M. de (Trichechus; Amazonia & northern South America; beating, harpoons; 194-196.)
Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use; Mermaid Legend)
x  1939Wavrin, M. de (Trichechus; South America; meat thought to cause indigestion & erysipelas; 196.)
South America
(SEE ALSO under countries)
x  1939Wavrin, M. de (Trichechus; northern coast & Amazonia; hunting; 194-196.)
Trichechus inunguis (Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Thomas and Lydekker, 1897
xv 1939Wavrin, M. de (Amazonia; hunting; 194-196.)
Trichechus manatus manatus Linnaeus, 1758, Hatt, 1934
xv 1939Wavrin, M. de (northern South America; hunting; 194-196.)