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Dugong dugon (Dugong)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The dugong (/ˈduːɡɒŋ/, /ˈdjuːɡɒŋ/; Dugong dugon) is a medium-sized marine mammal. It is one of four living species of the order Sirenia, which also includes three species of manatees. It is the only living representative of the once-diverse family Dugongidae; its closest modern relative, Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), was hunted to extinction in the 18th century. The dugong is the only strictly marine herbivorous mammal.
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Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
30
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
73
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 58.47
EDGE Score: 5.47
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Attributes

Gestation [2]  1 year
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  0.2
Maximum Longevity [2]  73 years
Migration [1]  Interoceanic
Snout to Vent Length [4]  10.857 feet (331 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Coastal
Weaning [2]  1 year 6 months
Adult Weight [2]  793.668 lbs (360.00 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  60.627 lbs (27.50 kg)
Forages - Marine [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  9 years 6 months
Male Maturity [2]  9 years 6 months

Protected Areas

Emblem of

Papua New Guinea

Prey / Diet

Predators

Galeocerdo cuvier (Tiger-shark)[7]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6"Shark Bay dugongs (Dugong dugon) in summer. II: Foragers in a Halodule-dominated community", P.K. ANDERSON, Mammalia. Volume 62, Issue 3, Pages 409–426
♦ 7The biology of tiger sharks, Galeocerdo cuvier, in Shark Bay, Western Australia: sex ratio, size distribution, diet, and seasonal changes in catch rates, Michael R. Heithaus, Environmental Biology of Fishes 61: 25–36, 2001
♦ 8Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0