🦭Amazonian manatee
The Amazonian manatee, commonly referred to as cowfish in Brazil, is a species of manatee that lives in the Amazon Basin in Brazil, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. It has thin, wrinkled brownish or gray colored skin, with fine hairs scattered over its body and a white chest patch. It is the smallest of the three extant species of manatee.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 294 kg
- Body length
- 2.78 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 40 years
Everything we know about the Amazonian manatee
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass294 kgrecord 450 kg · SeaLifeBaseCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Figures vary
- 480 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length2.78 mCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 3 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan40 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 40 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length20 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity4.2 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation328 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 328 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l294 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Amazonian manatee yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderSirenia
- ›familyTrichechidae
- ›genusTrichechus
- ›speciesTrichechus inunguis
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderSirenia
- familyTrichechidae
- genusTrichechus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- orderSirenia
- familyTrichechidae
- genusTrichechus
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