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Sirenia

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Sirenia
Temporal range: Early EoceneHolocene, 55.8–0 Ma
Clockwise from upper left: West Indian manatee, African manatee, Steller's sea cow, dugong, Amazonian manatee
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Superorder: Afrotheria
Clade: Paenungulata
Clade: Tethytheria
Order: Sirenia
Illiger, 1811
Families

Dugongidae
Trichechidae
Prorastomidae
Protosirenidae

West Indian in green, Amazonian in red, African in orange, dugong in blue, Steller's sea cow circled (yellow)
Synonyms[1]
List of synonyms

Sirenia is an order of herbivorous mammals. In this order are the dugong and three species of manatee.

Taxonomy

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References

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  1. Shoshani 2005.

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