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Preen, Anthony R. (detail)
   
1995a
Diet of dugongs: are they omnivores?
Jour. Mamm. 76(1): 163-171. 1 tab. Feb. 23, 1995.
–Summ.: BBC Wildlife 13(7): 23, 1 fig., July 1995. Analysis of dugong feces from Moreton Bay, Queensland, showed they had fed deliberately on ascidians and polychaetes in addition to seagrasses. This is attributed to nutritional stress due to seasonal scarcity of seagrasses at this subtropical site.

Related Index Records (9)

Australia
  x 1995a Preen, A.R. (DD; Moreton Bay, Queensland; feeding on invertebrates; 163-171.)

Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
  x 1995a Preen, A.R. (DD; Moreton Bay, Australia; excavating ascidians; 166, 168-170.)

Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
  x 1995a Preen, A.R. (Moreton Bay, Australia; feeding on invertebrates; 163-171.)

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 * 1995a Preen, A.R. (DD; Moreton Bay, Australia; ascidians Sycozoa pulchra, Polycarpa spp.; polychaetes, other invertebrates, seagrasses, and algae; 163-171.)

Food Plants: Halodule uninervis
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1995a Preen, A.R. (Moreton Bay, Australia; 165.)

Food Plants: Halophila ovalis
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1995a Preen, A.R. (Moreton Bay, Australia; 165-167.)

Food Plants: Halophila spinulosa
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1995a Preen, A.R. (Moreton Bay, Australia; 165-166.)

Food Plants: Syringodium isoetifolium
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1995a Preen, A.R. (Moreton Bay, Australia; 165.)

Food Plants: Zostera capricornis
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1995a Preen, A.R. ("Z. capricorni"; Moreton Bay, Australia; 165, 167.)


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