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Spain, Alister V.; Heinsohn, George Edwin (detail)
   
1973
Cyclone associated feeding changes in the dugong (Mammalia: Sirenia).
Mammalia 37(4): 678-680. 1 tab. Dec. 1973.
–Reports (on the basis of stomach contents) a dietary shift in Queensland dugongs from seagrasses to Sargassum and other brown and red algae following the destruction of seagrass beds by a cyclone. Hydroids, holothurian and ascidian remains, and silt and sand were also found in the dugongs' stomachs.

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Australia
  x 1973 Spain & Heinsohn (DD; cyclone & feeding changes; 678-680.)

Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
  x 1973 Spain & Heinsohn (Australia; cyclone & feeding changes; 678-680.)

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 1973 Spain & Heinsohn (DD; Australia; seagrasses, algae, silt, animal matter; 678-680.)

Food Plants: Ceramium
(red alga; Ceramiaceae)
  x 1973 Spain & Heinsohn (Queensland; after cyclone; 678.)

Food Plants: Hypnea
(red alga; Hypneaceae)
  x 1973 Spain & Heinsohn (Queensland; after cyclone; 678.)

Food Plants: Laurencia
(red alga; Rhodophyta)
  x 1973 Spain & Heinsohn (Queensland; after cyclone; 678.)

Food Plants: Sargassum
(brown alga; Sargassaceae)
  x 1973 Spain & Heinsohn (Queensland; after cyclone; 678-680.)

Food Plants: Spyridia
(red alga; Rhodophyta)
  x 1973 Spain & Heinsohn (Queensland; after cyclone; 678.)


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