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Dugongs
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Dugongs

Dugongidae

The Dugongidae are a family in the order of Sirenia. The family has one surviving species, the dugong (Dugong dugon), one recently extinct species, Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), and a number of extinct genera known from fossil records.

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2 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 1 known species

Dugongs

subfamilyDugonginae

Steller's Sea Cows

subfamilyHydrodamalinae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 46307.