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Dugong Marsa Alam🦭

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SpeciesSireniaDugongidae
Marine mammals

🦭Dugong

Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776)

Дюго́нь, или обыкновенный дюгонь (лат. Dugong dugon), — вид водных млекопитающих, единственный в роде дюгоней (Dugong) из семейства дюгоневых. Других современных представителей семейства не осталось, но к нему относилась истреблённая в XVIII в. стеллерова корова. Дюгонь занесён в Красный список МСОП как уязвимый вид. Название «дюгонь» происходит от малайского duyung, означающего «морская дева» («русалка»).

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Also called
Sea Cow
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
360 kg
Body length
3.31 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
73 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Dugong

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
360 kgrecord 400 kg · SeaLifeBase
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 360 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
3.31 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 4.06 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan
73 yearsrecord 20 years · SeaLifeBase
COMBINE
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 73 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
28 years
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
10 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
1.0 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1.0 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
47 km²
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
360 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Dugong yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderSirenia
  5. ›familyDugongidae
  6. ›genusDugong
  7. ›speciesDugong dugon
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderSirenia
  3. familyDugongidae
  4. genusDugong
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. orderSirenia
  11. familyDugongidae
  12. genusDugong
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🐘 Asian elephant — last shared an ancestor ≈ 55 million years ago.
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Seeschwein (de), Dugong (fr), Dugong dugon (it), พะยูน (th), 儒艮 (zh), dugong dugon (es) … and 28 more languages
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