Sirenia
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The Sirenia, commonly referred to as sea cows or sirenians, are an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit swamps, rivers, estuaries, marine wetlands, and coastal marine waters. The e
Sirenia Diversity
Dugong skeleton displayed at Philippine National Museum
Dugongs sift through the seafloor in search of seagrasses.
West Indian manatees in a conservation project in Brazil
Steller's sea cow
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Steller's sea cow is an extinct sirenian described by Georg Wilhelm Steller in 1741. At that time, it was found only around the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea between Alaska and Russia; its range
Sirenia
…estuaries, marine wetlands, and coastal marine waters. The extant Sirenia comprise two distinct families: Dugongidae (the dugong and the now extinct Steller's sea cow) and Trichechidae (manatees, namely the Amazonian manatee, West Indian manatee, and West African manatee) with a total of three species…
Hydrodamalis gigas skeleton Finnish Museum of Natural History DSC04529
The skull of a Steller's sea cow, Natural History Museum of London
Model in the Natural History Museum, London
Metacarpal bone of H. cf. gigas from Japan under study