dugong lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs
• sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America; the flat tail is rounded
• sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate
• A genus of the order Sirenia characterized by a notched tail, the presence of nasal bones and a long nasal cavity, and large columnar teeth lacking enamel. Dugongs inhabit the coastal waters of the Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and the Malay Archipelago. (From Scott, Concise Encyclopedia Biology, 1996)