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They are occasionally found overlapping with the West Indian manatee along the coasts of Brazil. [7] Amazonian manatees occur through most of the Amazon River drainage, from the headwaters, in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru to the mouth of the Amazon (close to the Marajó Island) in Brazil over an estimated seven million square kilometers. [2]
Trichechus hesperamazonicus, the western Amazonian manatee, is an extinct species of manatee that lived about 40 thousand years ago in the Madeira River, in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is known from this single locality, with possible occurrences in the Brazilian state of Acre .
The West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), also known as the North American manatee, is a large, aquatic mammal native to warm coastal areas of the Caribbean, from the Eastern United States to northern Brazil. Living alone or in herds, it feeds on underwater plants and uses its whiskers to navigate.
Manatees (/ ˈ m æ n ə t iː z /, family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows.There are three accepted living species of Trichechidae, representing three of the four living species in the order Sirenia: the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis), the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), and the West ...
West Indian manatees in a conservation project in Brazil. The three extant manatee species (family Trichechidae) and the dugong (family Dugongidae) are rated as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. All four are vulnerable to extinction from habitat loss and other negative impacts related to human population growth and coastal ...
The West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) is critically endangered in Brazil. The Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris) is the only Brazilian odd-toed ungulate and it is a vulnerable species. Family Trichechidae. Trichechus inunguis (Amazonian manatee) VU - ICMBio status VU; Trichechus manatus (West Indian manatee) VU - ICMBio status CR
Amazonian white water river floodplains cover an area of more than 300,000 km 2 (120,000 sq mi), [12] and várzea forests cover approximately 180,000 km 2 (69,000 sq mi) of the Amazon basin. [ 13 ] 68% of the Amazonian river basin is located in Brazil , with the remaining areas located in Bolivia , Colombia , Ecuador , French Guiana , Peru ...
Das Rãs River; Ratones River; Real River (Brazil) Regame River; Reis Magos River; Represa Grande River; Riachão River (Bahia) Riacho River (Espírito Santo) Ribeira de Iguape River; Ribeira River (Paraíba) Ribeira River (Paraná) Ribeirão River (Araraduara River) Rio de Janeiro (Bahia) Riozinho River (Amazonas) Riozinho River (Braço Menor ...