Dugongidae

Dugongidae[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Dugongidae
Genera

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Dugongidae is a family in the order of Sirenia.

The family has one surviving species, the Dugong (Dugong dugon), one recently extinct species, the Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), and a number of extinct genera known from the fossil record.

Taxonomy

References

  1. ^ Shoshani, Jeheskel (16 November 2005). Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3.