sirenian mammal
Noun
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Any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs (synset 102075902)
is a type of: aquatic mammal - whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; sealssubtypes:
- manatee, trichechus manatus - sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America; the flat tail is rounded
- dugong, dugong dugon - sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate
- hydrodamalis gigas, steller's sea cow - extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea
belongs to: order sirenia, sirenia - an animal order including: manatees; dugongs; Steller's sea cow
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