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Image: Manatee by USFWS Endangered Species
Information sourced from:
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2015), Syringodium filiforme [online], Available from: http://www.iucnredlist.org/search [accessed 02/07/2015]
There are 4 species of Manatee, one in West Africa, one in the Caribbean from the south-eastern United States to northern South America and one in the estuaries of the Orinoco and the Amazon.