Editing Amazonian manatee (section)

{{Short description|Species of mammal}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Amazonian manatee<ref>{{MSW3 Shoshani|pages=93}}</ref>
| image = Manati amazonico en Iquitos.jpg
| image_caption = 
| status = VU
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 11 November 2021" />
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status2 = CITES_A1 
 | status2_system = CITES 
 | status2_ref = <ref>{{Cite web|title=Appendices {{!}} CITES|url=https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php|access-date=2022-01-14|website=cites.org}}</ref>
| genus = Trichechus
| species = inunguis
| authority = ([[Johann Natterer|Natterer]], 1883)
| range_map = Amazonian Manatee.png
| range_map_caption = Amazonian manatee range
}}

The '''Amazonian manatee''' ('''''Trichechus inunguis''''') is a [[species]] of [[manatee]] that lives in the [[Amazon Basin]] in [[Brazil]], [[Peru]], [[Colombia]] and [[Ecuador]].<ref name="iucn status 11 November 2021" /> It has thin, wrinkled brownish or gray colored skin, with fine hairs scattered over its body and a white chest patch.<ref name="Canisius">{{Cite web |url=http://www.conservenature.org/marine_mammals/manatees.htm |title=Manatees |access-date=2008-11-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100629223906/http://www.conservenature.org:80/marine_mammals/manatees.htm |archive-date=2010-06-29 |url-status=usurped |website=Canisius Ambassadors for Conservation}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Husar |first1=Sandra L. |title=Trichechus inunguis |journal=Mammalian Species |date=1977 |issue=72 |pages=1–4 |doi=10.2307/3503928 |jstor=3503928 |url=https://academic.oup.com/mspecies/article/doi/10.2307/3503928/2600190|url-access=subscription }}</ref> It is the smallest of the three extant species of manatee.<ref name="Dwarf">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/roosmalen-200802.html |archive-url=https://arquivo.pt/wayback/20091014093223/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/roosmalen-200802.html |archive-date=October 14, 2009 |title=Trials of a Primatologist |magazine=[[Smithsonian Magazine]] |access-date=March 16, 2008}}</ref>