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Also Known As	Dugong dugon

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Two illustrations of a dugong (Dugong dugon), one from the side and one from above, are shown next to the silhouette of a scuba diver for scale. Measurement bars indicate the dugong's average length of about 2.7 meters, or 9 feet.

Dugong (Dugong dugon)

Features of dugongs and manatees compared.

World map showing the geographic ranges of the four living species of the order Sirenia: the West Indian manatee (highlighted in yellow along the southeastern US, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and northeast South America), the Amazonian manatee (in green within the Amazon River basin), the African manatee (in pink along the west coast and rivers of West and Central Africa), and the dugong (in purple along coastal waters from East Africa through the Indian Ocean to northern Australia and parts of So

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