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
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Sirenia
Family:Dugongidae
Gray, 1821
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Dugongidae[1]
Temporal range: Late Eocene-Holocene
A dugong in Marsa Alam
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Dugongidae
Gray, 1821
Genera

Dugong
Hydrodamalis
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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

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