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Kenchington, Richard A. (detail)
   
1972
Observations on the digestive system of the dugong, Dugong dugon (Erxleben).
Jour. Mamm. 53(4): 884-887. 1 tab. 7 figs. Nov. 30, 1972.
–Describes the gross anatomy and histology of stomachs and intestines of animals caught in northern Queensland shark nets; comments on secretions and muscular contractions of the gut, and the pH of its contents. "Sea grasses" were found even in the stomach of a "new born" calf.

Related Index Records (10)

Accidental Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Conservation; Hunting and Capture; Natural Death or Injury)
  x 1972 Kenchington, R.A. (DD; Australia; nets; 884.)

Australia
  x 1972 Kenchington, R.A. (DD; drowned in shark nets; m884.)

Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
  x 1972 Kenchington, R.A. (DD; Australia; calves grazing; 886.)

Biochemistry
(SEE ALSO: Digestive System; Endocrinology; Milk; Phylogeny and Affinities)
  x 1972 Kenchington, R.A. (DD; pH of foregut contents; 887.)

Digestive System
(SEE ALSO: Excretion and Defecation; Food; Mastication; Parasites; Parasitology; Sense Organs)
  x * 1972 Kenchington, R.A. (DD; stomach & intestine; 884-887.)

Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
  x 1972 Kenchington, R.A. (digestive system; 884-887.)

Food
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive; Captivity, Sirenians in; Digestive System; Food Plants; Weed Control) (NOTE: Plants reported as part of the captive but not the natural diet of sirs. will not necessarily be found under Food Plants. Papers referring to them are, however, indexed here.)
  x 1972 Kenchington, R.A. (DD; Australia; stomach contents; 884, 886.)

Histology
(SEE ALSO: Skeleton; other organ systems)
  x 1972 Kenchington, R.A. (DD; digestive tract; 885-887.)

Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
  x 1972 Kenchington, R.A. (DD; Australia; accidental netting; 884.)

Myology
  x 1972 Kenchington, R.A. (DD; digestive tract; m884, m886-887.)


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