Sirenia Temporal range: Early Eocene – Holocene,
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Clockwise from upper left: West Indian manatee, African manatee, Steller's sea cow, dugong, Amazonian manatee | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Superorder: | Afrotheria |
Clade: | Paenungulata |
Clade: | Tethytheria |
Order: | Sirenia Illiger, 1811 |
Families | |
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West Indian in green, Amazonian in red, African in orange, dugong in blue, Steller's sea cow circled (yellow) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
List of synonyms
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Sirenia is an order of herbivorous mammals. In this order are the dugong and three species of manatee.
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