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Lanyon, Janet M.; Marsh, Helene D. (detail)
   
1995
Digesta passage times in the dugong.
Austral. Jour. Zool. 43(2): 119-127. 3 tabs. 1 fig.
–Captive dugongs kept on a low-fiber, low-intake diet at Jakarta exhibited very slow passage times of 146-166 hours, similar to those of T. manatus. This is attributed to the long digestive tract, and results in almost complete digestion of low-fiber food.

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Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
  x 1995 Lanyon & Marsh (DD; Jakarta; 120-121.)

Digestive System
(SEE ALSO: Excretion and Defecation; Food; Mastication; Parasites; Parasitology; Sense Organs)
  1995 Lanyon & Marsh (DD; digesta passage times; 119-127.)

Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
  x 1995 Lanyon & Marsh (digesta passage times; 119-127.)

Excretion and Defecation
(SEE ALSO: Salinity Tolerance; Urogenital System)
  x * 1995 Lanyon & Marsh (DD; in capt.; digesta passage rate, 119-127; defecation, 120.)

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 1995 Lanyon & Marsh (DD; in capt., Jakarta; coprophagy; 120-123.)

Food Plants: Syringodium isoetifolium
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1995 Lanyon & Marsh (DD; in capt., Jakarta; 120.)

Trichechus inunguis (Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Thomas and Lydekker, 1897
  x 1995 Lanyon & Marsh (digesta passage times, comp. w/DD; 124-125.)

Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 1995 Lanyon & Marsh (digesta passage times, comp. w/DD; 120, 122-125.)


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