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x Mondolfi, Edgardo
  1974
Taxonomy, distribution and status of the manatee in Venezuela.
Mem. Soc. Cient. Nat. La Salle 34(97): 5-23. 11 figs. Jan.-Apr. 1974.
–Spanish summ. Reports on the examination of 3 specimens, and concludes that only T. manatus and not T. inunguis occurs in the lower Orinoco River. Discusses the movements, feeding, hunting, economic uses, and conservation problems of manatees in Venezuela.

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Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
x  1974Mondolfi, E. (TM; Venezuela; aggregations in lagoons; 14-15.)
Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
x  1974Mondolfi, E. (TM; Venezuela; pulling grasses into water with flippers; 14.)
Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
x  1974Mondolfi, E. (TMM; Venezuela; m6-7, m11, m13.)
Conservation
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Economic Uses; Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
x  1974Mondolfi, E. (TMM; Venezuela; 13, 16-18.)
Economic Uses
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
x  1974Mondolfi, E. (TMM; Venezuela; meat, fat, bones, hide; live animals for zoos & weed control; 13-14.)
Food Plants: Paspalum fasciculatum
x  1974Mondolfi, E. (Venezuela; 14.)
Food Plants: Paspalum repens
x  1974Mondolfi, E. ("Panicum repens"; Venezuela; 14.)
Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
x  1974Mondolfi, E. (TMM; Venezuela; harpoons, nets; 12-14.)
Medicinal Applications
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use)
x  1974Mondolfi, E. (TMM; Venezuela; bones; for asthma; 13.)
Migration and Movements
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Aggregative; Behavior, Shelter-seeking; Locomotion; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1974Mondolfi, E. (TMM; Venezuela; ascending rivers in rainy season; 12, 14-15.)
Pollution, Effects of
(SEE ALSO: Temperature, Effects of)
x  1974Mondolfi, E. (TMM; Venezuela; possible harmful effects; m17.)
Trichechus inunguis (Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Thomas and Lydekker, 1897
x  1974Mondolfi, E. (Venezuela; probably absent from lower Orinoco R.; 5-6, 15.)
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
x *1974Mondolfi, E. (Venezuela; 6-22.)
Venezuela
x *1974Mondolfi, E. (TMM; 5-22.)
Weed Control
x  1974Mondolfi, E. (TMM; Venezuela; m6-7, m13.)