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Scientific Name: Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776)
Common Names: Dugong, Sea Cow [English], Dugong [French], Dugon [Spanish]
Synonyms:
Dugong dugon hemprichii (Ehrenberg, 1833)
Dugong dugon dugon (Müller, 1776)
Dugong dugon tabernaculi (Rüppell, 1834)
Dugong dugong (Gmelin, 1788) |
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| Dugongs and other sirenians are not closely related to other marine mammals, being more related to elephants. Dugongs and elephants share a monophyletic group with hyraxes and the aardvark, one of the earliest offshoots of eutherians. |
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