One of the most endangered marine mammals in the United States is the Florida manatee. The manatees Latin name is Trichechus Manatus and under the class Mammalia and order Sirenia. All living manatees can be found in warm tropical and subtropical waters, usually of the coast of Florida, South America, West Africa, and throughout the Caribbean. Manatees inhabit rivers, canals, lagoons, and connected lakes, and estuaries. They can live in Fresh, Salt, and brackish waters; the Amazonian manatees are the only restricted to the fresh waters.
All manatees are herbivores. They like to eat a variety of vegetation floating
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