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x Barrett, O. W.
  1935
Notes concerning manatees and dugongs.
Jour. Mamm. 16(3): 216-220. Aug. 1935.
–Brief but really excellent account of Puerto Rican and Nicaraguan T. m. manatus natural history, behavior, and anatomy (especially the male urogenital system) (216-219); brief comments on East African dugong distribution and anatomy, including the author's complicity in a "mermaid" fraud (219-220).

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Africa
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean; Egypt; Madagascar; Red Sea)
x  1935Barrett, O.W. (DD; Portuguese East Africa; 219-220.)
Anatomy
(SEE ALSO: Brain and Nervous System; Circulatory System; Digestive System; Embryology; Endocrinology; Growth Rates; Histology; Myology; Pathology; Respiratory System; Skeleton; Urogenital System; and under species)
x  1935Barrett, O.W. (TMM; 218-219.)
Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
x *1935Barrett, O.W. (TM; Central America; 216-217.)
Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
x *1935Barrett, O.W. (TM; Central America; 217.)
Behavior, Sexual
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding)
x  1935Barrett, O.W. (TM; Central America; 217.)
Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
x *1935Barrett, O.W. (TM; Central America; escape, 217; habits changed by hunting, 216.)
Birth and Breeding
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
x  1935Barrett, O.W. (TM; Central America; 217.)
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
x  1935Barrett, O.W. (East Africa; 219-220.)
Economic Uses
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
x *1935Barrett, O.W. (TMM; Central America; "3 kinds of meat", oil, hide, stapes; 218.)
Food Plants: Panicum jumentorum
x  1935Barrett, O.W. (Puerto Rico; m216.)
Food Plants: Panicum molle
x *1935Barrett, O.W. (Central America, Puerto Rico; 216-217.)
Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
x *1935Barrett, O.W. (TMM; Central America; 216-217.)
Mastication
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
x  1935Barrett, O.W. (TMM; "little chewing"; 217.)
Mermaid Legend
(SEE ALSO: Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Ri)
x  1935Barrett, O.W. (Africa; frozen dugong carcass exhibited as mermaid; 219.)
Migration and Movements
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Aggregative; Behavior, Shelter-seeking; Locomotion; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1935Barrett, O.W. (TMM; Puerto Rico & Central America; 216.)
Myology
x  1935Barrett, O.W. (TMM; muscle color; 218.)
Natural Enemies
(SEE ALSO: Natural Death or Injury)
x  1935Barrett, O.W. (TMM, sharks, caimans, m218; DD, crocodiles, 219-220.)
Nicaragua
(SEE ALSO: Central America)
x *1935Barrett, O.W. (TMM; 216-219.)
Puerto Rico
x  1935Barrett, O.W. (TMM; 216, 218.)
Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use; Mermaid Legend)
x  1935Barrett, O.W. (Nicaragua; manatee-stapes charms; 218.)
Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
x  1935Barrett, O.W. (TMM; Central America; diving time, 217; breathing, 218.)
Salinity Tolerance
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
x  1935Barrett, O.W. (TMM; Central America; dislike salt water; 216.)
Skeleton
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
x  1935Barrett, O.W. (TMM; cartilaginous ?"baculum"; 219.)
Sound Production
x  1935Barrett, O.W. (TMM; Central America; grazing, 217; breathing, 218.)
Trichechus manatus manatus Linnaeus, 1758, Hatt, 1934
x *1935Barrett, O.W. (Central America & West Indies; gen. acc.; 216-219.)
Urogenital System
(SEE ALSO: Excretion and Defecation)
x  1935Barrett, O.W. (male Trichechus, 218-219; male DD, 220.)