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 Marsh, Helene D.; Beck, Cathy A.; Vargo, Tim (detail)
   
1998
Comparison of the capabilities of dugongs and West Indian manatees to masticate seagrasses.
Mar. Mamm. Sci. 15(1): 250-255. 1 tab. 2 figs. "Jan. 1999" (mailed Dec. 3, 1998).
–Compares fragment sizes of seagrasses (Halodule and Thalassia) in stomach contents of dugongs and of Florida and Puerto Rican manatees. The fragments from dugong stomachs were smaller despite the dugong's simpler teeth, indicating that other parts of the masticatory apparatus are also important in fragmentation of food.

Related Index Records (8)

Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
  x 1998 Marsh et al. (Queensland; fragment size of stomach contents, comp. w/ TML & TMM; 250-255.)
Food Plants: Halodule uninervis
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1998 Marsh et al. (Queensland; fragment size in stomach contents; 252-254.)
Food Plants: Halodule wrightii
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1998 Marsh et al. (Florida, Puerto Rico; fragment size in stomach contents; 252-254.)
Food Plants: Thalassia hemprichii
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1998 Marsh et al. (Queensland; fragment size in stomach contents; 252-254.)
Food Plants: Thalassia testudinum
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1998 Marsh et al. (Florida, Puerto Rico; fragment size in stomach contents; 252-254.)
Mastication
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
  x * 1998 Marsh et al. (DD, TML, TMM; fragment size of stomach contents; 250-255.)
Trichechus manatus latirostris (Harlan, 1824) Hatt, 1934
  x 1998 Marsh et al. (Florida; fragment size of stomach contents, comp. w/ DD & TMM; 250-255.)
Trichechus manatus manatus Linnaeus, 1758, Hatt, 1934
  x 1998 Marsh et al. (Puerto Rico; fragment size of stomach contents, comp. w/ DD & TML; 250-255.)

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