Hill-Lewenilovo, Renee and Vuiyasawa, Roko and Piovano, Susanna (2019) First record of a dugong (Dugong dugon Müller, 1776) in Fiji. CSIRO Publishing.
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Abstract
We report the first record of a dugong (Dugong dugon Müller, 1776) in Fiji. The dugong, probably a vagrant, was found dead on 20 May 2018 at more than 600 km from the nearest known dugong population, which is in Vanuatu. The dugong, a 2-m-long female, was 13 years old.
| Item Type: | Other |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment (FSTE) > School of Marine Studies |
| Depositing User: | Fulori Nainoca - Waqairagata |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jun 2020 03:16 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jun 2020 03:16 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/12178 |
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