Dugongidae is a family in the order of Sirenia. The family has one surviving species, the dugong (Dugong dugon), one recently extinct species, Steller's...
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manatees. It is the only living representative of the once-diverse family Dugongidae; its closest modern relative, Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas),...
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coastal marine waters. The extant Sirenia comprise two distinct families: Dugongidae (the dugong and the now extinct Steller's sea cow) and Trichechidae (manatees...
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short tons) and lengths up to 9 m (30 ft). It was a member of the family Dugongidae, of which the 3 m (9.8 ft) long dugong (Dugong dugon) is the sole living...
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†Arsinoitheriidae order Sirenia †Prorastomidae †Protosirenidae (Dugongidae?) Dugongidae Trichechidae order Proboscidea †Phosphatheriidae (Numidotheriidae...
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List of marine mammal species (section Dugongidae)
Marine mammals comprise over 130 living and recently extinct species in three taxonomic orders. The Society for Marine Mammalogy, an international scientific...
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from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2006. Marsh H (1989). "Chapter 57: Dugongidae" (PDF). Fauna of Australia. Vol. 1. Canberra: Australian Government Publications...
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Furusawa, Hitoshi (2004). "A phylogeny of the North Pacific Sirenia (Dugongidae: Hydrodamalinae) based on a comparative study of endocranial casts". Paleontological...
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family Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Mammalia Infraclass Eutheria Superorder Afrotheria Dugongidae (Dugongs) Trichechidae (Manatees) Category...
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