order of mammals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sirenia is an order of herbivorous mammals. In this order are the dugong and three species of manatee.
| Sirenia Temporal range: Early Eocene – Holocene, | |
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| Clockwise from upper left: West Indian manatee, African manatee, Steller's sea cow, dugong, Amazonian manatee | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Superorder: | Afrotheria |
| Clade: | Paenungulata |
| Clade: | Tethytheria |
| Order: | Sirenia Illiger, 1811 |
| Families | |
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Dugongidae | |
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| West Indian in green, Amazonian in red, African in orange, dugong in blue, Steller's sea cow circled (yellow) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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