Dugongidae

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Dugongidae[1]
Temporal range: Late Eocene-Holocene
File:Dugong Marsa Alam.jpg
A dugong in Marsa Alam
Scientific classification e
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Recent genera

Dugong
Hydrodamalis
For fossil species, see text

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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.

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Dugong skeleton displayed at Philippine National Museum

Taxonomy

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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.[9]

Phylogeny

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Afrotheria
Afroinsectiphilia
Tubulidentata

OrycteropodidaeFile:Aardvark2 (PSF) colourised.png

Afroinsectivora
Macroscelidea

MacroscelididaeFile:Rhynchocyon chrysopygus-J Smit white background.jpg

Afrosoricida

ChrysochloridaeFile:The animal kingdom, arranged according to its organization, serving as a foundation for the natural history of animals (Pl. 18) (Chrysochloris asiatica).jpg

TenrecidaeFile:Brehms Thierleben - Allgemeine Kunde des Thierreichs (1876) (Tenrec ecaudatus).jpg

Paenungulata
Hyracoidea

ProcaviidaeFile:DendrohyraxEminiSmit white background.jpg

Tethytheria
Proboscidea

ElephantidaeFile:Elephas africanus - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - (white background).jpg

Sirenia

DugongidaeFile:Dugong dugon Hardwicke white background.jpg

TrichechidaeFile:Manatee white background.jpg

References

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  1. Template:MSW3 Shoshani
  2. 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.
  3. 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. S2CID 85297028.
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  5. 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.
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  8. Furusawa, Hitoshi (1988). A new species of hydrodamaline Sirenia from Hokkaido, Japan. Takikawa Museum of Art and Natural History. pp. 1–73.
  9. 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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