Dugong

The dugong (Dugong dugon) is a medium-sized marine mammal. It is ane o fower livin species o the order Sirenia, which includes three species o manatees an aa. It is the anely livin memmer o the ance-diverse faimily Dugongidae; its closest modren relative, Steller's sea cou (Hydrodamalis gigas), wis huntit tae extinction in the 18t yearhunner. The dugong is the anly strictly marine herbivorous mammal.

Dugong[1]
A dugong in Marsa Alam
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Order:	Sirenia
Faimily:	Dugongidae
Subfaimily:	Dugonginae Simpson, 1932
Genus:	Dugong Lacépède, 1799
Species:	D. dugon
Binomial name
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776)
Dugong range