Sirenia
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sirenia-170-2374325
title:
Sirenia
text:
The Sirenia, commonly referred to as sea cows or sirenians, are an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit swamps, rivers, estuaries, marine wetlands, and coastal marine waters. The extant Sirenia comprise two distinct families: Dugongidae and Trichechidae with a total of four species. The Protosirenidae and Prorastomidae families are extinct. Sirenians are classified in the clade Paenungulata, alongside the elephants and the hyraxes, and evolved in the Eocene 50 million years a
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Order of aquatic herbivorous mammals
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirenia
date created:
2001-03-07T21:24:51Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T19:40:33Z
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fields total:
13
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16