Trichechus inunguis
| Main Authors: | Voss, Robert S., Fleck, David W. |
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| Format: | info publication-taxonomictreatment Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2017
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/5477038 |
Daftar Isi:
- Trichechus inunguis (Natterer, 1883) VOUCHER MATERIAL: Río Tapiche (AMNH 98691). OTHER INTERFLUVIAL RECORDS: Jenaro Herrera (Tovar, 2011), Reserva Comunal Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo (Bodmer, 1994), Río Orosa (Mármol, 1995), Río Tapiche (Reeves et al., 1996), Río Yavarí (Mármol, 1995). IDENTIFICATION: Only a single species of manatee is known to occur in the upper Amazon Basin. Our voucher consists of the skull of a mature adult of unknown sex. Selected cranial measurements of AMNH 98691 are all within the range of variation for Trichechus inunguis tabulated by Domning and Hayek (1986): condylobasal length, 383.1 mm; breadth across postorbital processes of frontals, 130.1 mm; least postorbital breadth, 54.1 mm; zygomatic breadth, 214.1 mm. REMARKS: The holotype skull of an allegedly new species of “dwarf ” manatee recently described by Roosmalen (2015: figs. 20, 21) from the Rio Aripuanã basin of Amazonas, Brazil, is an obviously immature individual with open basicranial and occipital sutures.
- Published as part of Voss, Robert S. & Fleck, David W., 2017, Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 2: Xenarthra, Carnivora, Perissodactyla, Artiodactyla, And Sirenia, pp. 1 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2017 (417) on page 1, DOI: 10.1206/00030090-417.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5407771