Diet Overlap

Trichechus manatus (West Indian Manatee)
Pseudemys nelsoni (Florida Redbelly Turtle)

Common Diet

Hydrilla verticillata (waterthyme)
Vallisneria americana (Water Celery)

Common Habitat

Big Cypress National Preserve
Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Consumption 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)
♦ 2Dietary Overlap in Three Sympatric Congeneric Freshwater Turtles (Pseudemys) in Florida, Karen A. Bjorndal, Alan B. Bolten, Cynthia J. Lagueux and Dale R. Jackson, Chelonian Conservation Biology, 1997, 2(3):430-433