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 sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), and a number of extinct genera known from fossil records.
Dugong skeleton displayed at Philippine National Museum
Dugongidae's body weight ranges from 217 to 307 kg for juveniles, 334 to 424 kg for subadults, and 435 to 568.5 kg for adults. Oral temperatures for individual dugongs is determined from 24° to 34.2 °C. Heart rate readings are from 40 to 96 bpm and vary between individual dugongs. Respiration rate during the out-of-water phase is from 1 to 33.[2]
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^Lanyon, Janet M., et al (2010). “Physiological Response of Wild Dugongs (Dugong dugon) to Out-of-Water Sampling for Health Assessment.” Aquatic Mammals, vol. 36, pp. 46-58. doi:10.1578/AM.36.1.2010.46.
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...
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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creatures. By the time the Eocene drew to a close, came the appearance of the Dugongidae; sirenians had acquired their familiar fully aquatic streamlined body...
Furusawa, Hitoshi (2004). "A phylogeny of the North Pacific Sirenia (Dugongidae: Hydrodamalinae) based on a comparative study of endocranial casts". Paleontological...
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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D. P.; Pervesler, P. (2012). "The sirenian Metaxytherium (Mammalia: Dugongidae) in the Badenian (Middle Miocene) of Central Europe" (PDF). Austrian Journal...
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