Sirenia

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

Sirenia Temporal range: Early Eocene – Holocene,
File:Sirenia Diversity.jpg
Clockwise from upper left: West Indian manatee, African manatee, Steller's sea cow, dugong, Amazonian manatee
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
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
List of synonyms Halobioidea Ameghino, 1889 Herbivorae Gray, 1821 Phycoceta Haeckel, 1866 Sirenoidea van Beneden, 1855 Sireniformes Kinman, 1994 Trichechiformes Hay, 1923

Taxonomy

• Order Sirenia
  • Family Dugongidae
    • Dugong, Dugong dugon
    • †Steller's sea cow, Hydrodamlis gigas
  • Family Trichechidae
    • West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus
    • African manatee, Trichechus senegalensis
    • Amazonian manatee, Trichechus inunguis

Sirenia Media

• Dugong skeleton displayed at Philippine National Museum.jpg

  Dugong skeleton displayed at Philippine National Museum

• DendrohyraxEminiSmit white background.jpg

  DendrohyraxEminiSmit white background

• Manateewhitebackground

• Dugong dugon Hardwicke white background.jpg

  Dugong dugon Hardwicke white background

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

  Elephas africanus - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - (white background)

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  Aardvark2 (PSF) colourised

• Rhynchocyon chrysopygus-J Smit white background

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

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

• Potamogale velox illustration.jpg

  Potamogale velox illustration

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

  Brehms Thierleben - Allgemeine Kunde des Thierreichs (1876) (Tenrec ecaudatus)

Other websites

Data related to Sirenia at Wikispecies
Media related to Sirenia at Wikimedia Commons