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SPECIES Trichechus senegalensis
| Author: | Link, 1795. | | Citation: | Beitr. Naturgesch., 1(2): 209. | | Common Name: | African Manatee | | Type Locality: | Senegal | | Distribution: | Coastal W Africa including river systems from Angola to Senegal. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; U.S. ESA – Threatened; IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Reviewed by Husar (1978, Mammalian Species, 89). Trichechus Manatus australis Gmelin, 1788 is a partial synonym, that was restricted to the African manatee by Shaw (1800) and Hatt (1934a); see Domning (1996). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
australis Gmelin, 1788
nasutus (Wyman, 1848)
oweni (Du Chaillu, 1861)
sphaerurus (Illiger, 1815)
stroggylonurus (Bechstein, 1800)
vogelii (Owen, 1856)
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