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- ↑ José Achilles Tenuta (2004). Pantanal: um pedaço do Brasil = Pantanal. A piece of Brazil (in Portuguese and English). Goiânia: R & F Editora. ISBN 9788587479211.
- ↑ Virgilio Corrêa Filho (1926). A propósito do boi Pantaneiro (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Paulo Pongetti. Cited by: Maria Cristina Medeiros Mazza, José Benedito de Freitas Trovo, José Robson Bezerra Sereno, Roberto Aguilar Machado Santos Silva, Urbano Gomes Pinto de Abreu (1989). Desempenho de bovinos pantaneiros no núcleo de conservação da fazenda Nhumirim, Nhecolândia, Pantanal: avaliação preliminar (in Portuguese). Pesquisa em Andamento (11): 1–5. Corumbá: EMBRAPA-CPAP. ISSN 0102-7727. Page 3.
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