Biology:Dugongidae

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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, Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), and a number of extinct genera known from fossil records.

Dugong skeleton displayed at Philippine National Museum

Taxonomy

The genera Eosiren, Eotheroides, and Prototherium have been assigned to Halitheriinae in the past, but recent cladistic analysis recovers these genera as basal to the clade formed by Trichechidae and Dugongidae. Moreover, Halitheriinae is paraphyletic with respect to Dugonginae and Hydrodamalinae, and further use of the name should be discontinued because the type genus is based on a non-diagnostic tooth.[8]

Phylogeny

Afrotheria
Afroinsectiphilia
Tubulidentata

Orycteropodidae60 px

Afroinsectivora
Macroscelidea

Macroscelididae50 px

Afrosoricida

Chrysochloridae50 px

Tenrecidae50 px

Paenungulata
Hyracoidea

Procaviidae50 px

Tethytheria
Proboscidea

Elephantidae70 px

Sirenia

Dugongidae60 px

Trichechidae60 px

References

  1. Manja Voss & Oliver Hampe (2017). "Evidence for two sympatric sirenian species (Mammalia, Tethytheria) in the early Oligocene of Central Europe". Journal of Paleontology. in press. doi:10.1017/jpa.2016.147.
  2. Vélez-Juarbe, Jorge; Domning, Daryl P. (2014). "Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. X. Priscosiren atlantica, sp. nov". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34 (4): 951. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.815192. 
  3. Vélez-Juarbe, Jorge; Domning, Daryl P. (2015). "Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. XI. Callistosiren boriquensis, gen. et sp. nov". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35 (1). doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.885034. Bibcode2015JVPal..35E5034V. 
  4. Manja Voss; Silvia Sorbi; Daryl P. Domning (2017). "Morphological and systematic re-assessment of the late Oligocene "Halitherium" bellunense reveals a new crown group genus of Sirenia". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 62 (1): 163–172. doi:10.4202/app.00287.2016.
  5. Saha, A.; Verma, S. K.; Bajpai, S.; Roy, P.; Domning, D. P. (2026). "Miocene dugongid (Mammalia, Sirenia) diversity in the Indian Ocean, with description of a new genus and species from Kutch, Western India". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. doi:10.1080/02724634.2026.2634013. 
  6. Pyenson, N. D.; Sakal, F.; LeBlanc, J.; Blundell, J.; Klim, K. D.; Marshall, C. D.; Velez-Juarbe, J.; Wolfe, K. et al. (2025). "High abundance of Early Miocene sea cows from Qatar shows repeated evolution of seagrass ecosystem engineers in Eastern Tethys". PeerJ 13. doi:10.7717/peerj.20030. 
  7. Furusawa, Hitoshi (1988). A new species of hydrodamaline Sirenia from Hokkaido, Japan. Takikawa Museum of Art and Natural History. pp. 1–73. 
  8. Voss, Manja (2014). "On the invalidity of Halitherium schinzii Kaup, 1838 (Mammalia, Sirenia), with comments on systematic consequences". Zoosystematics and Evolution 90: 87–93. doi:10.3897/zse.90.7421. 

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