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Trichechus manatus  Linnaeus, 1758
Taxonomic Serial No.: 180684

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s): Trichecus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  
  Common Name(s): West Indian Manatee [English]
  
    manatee [English]
  
    Manatí del Caribe [Spanish]
  
    Caribbean manatee [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderSirenia Illiger, 1811 – dugongs, manatees, sea cows, sirens  
                                  FamilyTrichechidae Gill, 1872 – manatees  
                                     GenusTrichechus Linnaeus, 1758 – manatees  
                                        SpeciesTrichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758 – West Indian Manatee, manatee, Manatí del Caribe, Caribbean manatee  
    Direct Children:  
                                           Subspecies Trichechus manatus latirostris (Harlan, 1824) – Florida manatee 
                                           Subspecies Trichechus manatus manatus Linnaeus, 1758 – Antillean manatee 
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Alfred L. Gardner  
  Notes: Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA   
  Reference for: Trichechus manatus    
       
  Expert: Don E. Wilson  
  Notes: Smithsonian Institution, MRC 108 Washington DC 20560-0108   
  Reference for: Trichechus manatus    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, website (version 2006)  
  Acquired: 2007   
  Notes: http://www.redlist.org/   
  Reference for: Trichechus manatus   
       
  Source: Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, database (version undefined)  
  Acquired: 2001   
  Notes: CONABIO: (http://www.conabio.gob.mx/)   
  Reference for: Manatí del Caribe[Spanish]   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Trichechus manatus   
       
  Source: U. S. Dept. Interior, database (version 1)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Trichechus manatus   
       
  Source: U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Program, website (version undefined)  
  Acquired: 2001   
  Notes: http://www.fws.gov/endangered/   
  Reference for: Trichechus manatus   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner  
  Publication Date: 1987   
  Article/Chapter Title: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Resource Publication, no. 166   
  Page(s): 79   
  Publisher: United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service   
  Publication Place: Washington, D.C., USA   
  ISBN/ISSN:    
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Trichechus manatus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Domning, Daryl P.  
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title: Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. VII. Pleistocene Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 25, no. 3   
  Page(s): 685-701   
  Publisher:    
  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN: 0272-4634   
  Notes: Online ISSN: 1937-2809, available at http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-archive&issn=0272-4634   
  Reference for: Trichechus manatus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Rice, Dale W.  
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Special Publications of the Society for Marine Mammals, no. 4   
  Page(s): ix + 231   
  Publisher: The Society for Marine Mammalogy   
  Publication Place: Lawrence, Kansas, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-891276-03-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Trichechus manatus, West Indian Manatee [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing   
  Page(s): xviii + 1207   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-217-9   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Trichechus manatus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2   
  Page(s): 2142   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Trichechus manatus, West Indian Manatee [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole  
  Publication Date: 2000   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Common Names of Mammals of the World   
  Page(s): xiv + 204   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-383-3   
  Notes: With contributions by Bernadette N. Graham, Adam P. Potter, and Mariana M. Upmeyer   
  Reference for: Trichechus manatus, West Indian Manatee [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and Sue Ruff, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1999   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals   
  Page(s): xxv + 750   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-845-2   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Trichechus manatus   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: Middle America  
    North America  
    Caribbean  
    South America  
    Western Atlantic Ocean  
       
  Jurisdiction/Origin: Continental US, Native  
    Caribbean Territories, Native  
    Mexico, Native  
 

 

    

 Comments
       
  Comment: Status: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Vulnerable  
    Comments: See Domning (1981, 1996); reviewed by Husar (1978, Mammalian Species, 93)  
    Domning, an acknowledged expert on these taxa, continues to recognize the two extant subspecies of West Indian Manatee, Trichechus manatus latirostris & T. m. manatus (e.g., Domning 2005), so ITIS is following this view (which coincides with that of Rice 1998)  
 

 

    

 
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