<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r369756387">.mw-parser-output .smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}</style><span class="smallcaps">Fig.</span> 21.—Sternum of a young Dugong (<i>Halicore indicus</i>). × ¼. From a specimen in the Leyden Museum, <i>ps</i>, Presternum; <i>xs</i>, xiphisternum. (From Flower's <i>Osteology</i>).
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The modern accepted name for the Dugong is <i>Dugong dugon</i> (duh!)
Frank E. Beddard
1902
The Cambridge Natural History, Volume X—Mammalia.