These enormous vegetarians can be found in warm coastal waters from East Africa to Australia, including the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Pacific. Dugongs are related to manatees and are similar in appearance and behavior— though the dugong's tail is fluked like a whale's. Both are related ...
Origin of dugong: large, aquatic herbivorous mammal of the Indian Ocean and western Pacific, 1800 (by 1789 in French), from Malay (Austr ... See more.
Of the four living species of sirenians, dugongs have the most cetacean-like appearance, with bilobed flukes, rather than the rounded paddles of manatees. Vanuatu. photo: l. visser Sign in to download full-size image Taxonomic Groupings Above the Species Level ...