Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Synonyms: Amblychilus Fischer von Waldheim 1814, Dugongidus Gray 1821, Dugungus Tiedemann 1808, Halicora Fleming 1822, Halicore, Platystomus Fischer von Waldheim 1803
Full reference: B. G. E. Lacépède. 1799. Tabeau les divisions, sous-divisions, ordres et genres des mammiferes.
Parent taxon: Dugonginae according to M. Voss 2014
See also Abel 1919, Brandt 1849, Domning 1994, Domning 1996, Domning 1997, Domning 2018, Domning 1979, Fischer 1829, Gill 1872, Gray 1821, Gray 1825, Gray 1850, Gray 1866, Heal 1973, Husar 1978, Illiger 1811, Palmer 1904, Pictet 1853, Rice 1998, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Scott 1873, Simpson 1932, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Turner 1912 and Zittel 1925
Sister taxa: Bharatisiren, Callistosiren, Corystosiren, Crenatosiren, Culebratherium, Dioplotherium, Domningia, Italosiren, Kutchisiren, Norosiren, Rytiodus, Xenosiren
Subtaxa: Dugong dugon
Ecology: aquatic herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), New Caledonia (10), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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