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Trichechus manatus (West Indian Manatee; manatee; Caribbean manatee)

Synonyms: Manatus americanus; Manatus koellikeri; Trichechus koellikeri; Trichecus manatus
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) or "sea cow" is a manatee, and the largest surviving member of the aquatic mammal order Sirenia (which also includes the dugong and the extinct Steller's sea cow). Both the Florida manatee and the Antillean manatee are endangered and have been of great conservation concern to federal, state, private, and nonprofit organizations to protect these species from natural and human-induced threats.
View Wikipedia Record: Trichechus manatus

Infraspecies

Trichechus manatus bakerorum
Trichechus manatus borealis
Trichechus manatus latirostris (Florida manatee)
Trichechus manatus manatus (Antillean manatee)

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Trichechus manatus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
21
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
68
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 42.03
EDGE Score: 5.15
View EDGE Record: Trichechus manatus

Attributes

Gestation [2]  11 months 5 days
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  0.4
Maximum Longevity [2]  56 years
Snout to Vent Length [4]  13.12 feet (400 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Rivers and Streams, Coastal
Weaning [2]  1 year 3 months
Adult Weight [2]  709.892 lbs (322.00 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  70.548 lbs (32.00 kg)
Forages - Marine [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  3 years 6 months
Male Maturity [2]  2 years 6 months

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Florida Peninsula United States Nearctic Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers    

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Hydrilla verticillata (waterthyme)[5]
Pistia stratiotes (water lettuce)[5]
Pontederia crassipes (common water hyacinth)[5]
Vallisneria americana (Water Celery)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Chiorchis fabaceus[6]
Moniligerum blairi[6]
Nudacotyle undicola[6]
Pulmonicola cochleotrema[6]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5Consumption of Aquatic Plants by the West Indian Manatee, Kay Etheridge, G. B. Rathbun, J. A. Powell, and H. I. Kochman, J. Aquat. Plant Manage. 23: 21-25 (1985)
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0