Trichechidae

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Trichechidae
Temporal range: Late OligoceneRecent
File:Manatee at Sea World Orlando Mar 10.JPG
West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Trichechidae
Gill 1872
Genera

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Trichechidae is a family of sirenians that includes all living manatees and several extinct genera.

Systematics

Trichechidae

References

  1. M. Voss. 2014. On the invalidity of Halitherium schinzii Kaup, 1838 (Mammalia, Sirenia), with comments on systematic consequences. Zoosystematics and Evolution 90(1):87-93