Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia 
Bibliography Record
| x | Whitehead, Peter J. P. | ||
| 1977 | The former southern distribution of New World manatees (Trichechus spp.). Biol. Jour. Linn. Soc. 9: 165-189. 1 fig. 1 pl. June 1977. –Reviews in detail the accounts of manatees in 16th- and 17th-century (and some later) works on Brazil and adjacent coastal regions, extending the documented former distribution of T. manatus to about 20° S. Concludes that a "monster" killed at São Vicente in 1564 was not a manatee but a pinniped. See also Whitehead (1978) and Faust et al. (2002). | ||
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Brazil
| x | * | 1977 | Whitehead, P.J.P. (early accounts & former southern distr. of manatees; 165-189.) |
Trichechus inunguis (Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Thomas and Lydekker, 1897
| x | * | 1977 | Whitehead, P.J.P. (?earliest account that of Carvajal; 169-170.) |
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
| x | * | 1977 | Whitehead, P.J.P. (Brazil; early accounts & former southern distr.; 165-179, 184-185.) |