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x De Pourtalès, Louis François
  1877
Hints on the origin of the flora and fauna of the Florida Keys.
Amer. Naturalist 11: 137-144. Mar. 1877.
–Concludes that the occurrence of manatees in both Florida and the West Indies, and of "manatee" bone fragments in dredge samples off the Florida coast, indicates former migrations between Cuba and Florida (144). These may have been dugongid bones, however; see Reed et al., 2005.)

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Florida
x  1877De Pourtales, L.F. (?Trichechus; dredged bone fragments & distr. in common with West Indies; 144.)
Migration and Movements
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Aggregative; Behavior, Shelter-seeking; Locomotion; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1877De Pourtales, L.F. (?TM; supposed former migrations between Florida & West Indies; 144.)
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
xv 1877De Pourtales, L.F. (Florida & West Indies; distr.; 144.)
West Indies
(SEE ALSO: Caribbean Sea; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Jamaica; Puerto Rico)
x  1877De Pourtales, L.F. (TM; zoogeography; 144.)