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Dugongidae Gray 1821
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Description
Family DUGONGIDAE
(DUGONG)
• Medium-sized sirenian with pectoral flippers lacking nails, no external hindlimbs, and a whale-like tail fluke with a median notch.
• 200-330 cm.
• Subtropical and tropical Indo-West Pacific waters.
Coastal and island waters with seagrass meadows
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1 genus, 1 species, at least 1 extant taxon
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1 species Vulnerable; 1 species Extinct since 1600 (1768).
Notes
Published as part of Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2014, Dugongidae, pp. 564-573 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 4 Sea Mammals, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 564, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6598667
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Dugongidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Sirenia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dugongidae Gray, 1821 sec. Mittermeier & Wilson, 2014