Bassos-Hull, K., R. S. Wells and K. W. Urian.  (1997).  Low-level monitoring of bottlenose doplphins, Tursiops truncates, in Charlotte Harbor, Florida.  In Sally Treat (Ed.).  Proceedings of the 1997 Charlotte Harbor Public Conference and Technical Symposium (pp. 163-170).
Full text: http://library.fgcu.edu/chnep/9802-20.pdf

Kadel, J.  (1992).  Great white manatee: Field note.  Underwater Naturalist,  21(2): 15-16.
(The author reports the June 1990 sighting of a white manatee in Turtle Bay.

Koelsch, J. K. and T. D. Pitchford.  (1997).  Florida manatees, Trichechus manatus latirostris, in Charlotte Harbor.  In Sally Treat (Ed.).  Proceedings of the 1997 Charlotte Harbor Public Conference and Technical Symposium (pp. 171-185).
Full text: http://library.fgcu.edu/chnep/9802-21.pdf

Nabor, Peter and Geoffrey W. Patton.  (1989).  Aerial studies of the West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus) from Anna Maria Florida to Northern Charlotte Harbor including the Myakka River: recommended habitat protection and manatee management strategies / submitted to Natural Resources Dept., County of Sarasota.  Mote Marine Laboratory technical report ; No. 134.  Sarasota, FL: Mote Marine Laboratory.
(Mote Marine Laboratory has been conducting aerial surveys and collecting manatee sighting data on the Gulf Coast since January 1985.  This report presents nearly four years of sighting data for the area from Anna Maria Island to Venice and almost two years for the area south of Venice to northern Charlotte Harbor, including the Myakka River.)

Rawson, A. J., H. Anderson, G. W. Patton and T. Beecher.  (1991).  Anthracosis in the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus ).  Marine Mammal Science, 7(4): 413-416.
(The authors describe necropsies on Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus ), that were stranded on the west coast of Florida between Charlotte Harbor and Tampa Bay.)

Treat, Sally F. (Ed.).  (1997).  Charlotte Harbor Public Conference and Technical Symposium.  Proceedings of the Charlotte Harbor Public Conference and Technical Symposium, March 1997, Punta Gorda, FL.  274 pp.  West Palm Beach, FL:: South Florida Water Management District ; North Fort Myers, FL: Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program.