What is Sirenia?
:''For information about the [[Gothic metal]] band, see [[Sirenia (band)]]'' {{Automatic taxobox | name = Sirenia | display_parents = 3 | fossil_range = [[Early Eocene]] – [[Holocene]], {{Fossil range|55.8|0}} | image = Sirenia Diversity.jpg | image_upright = 1.15 | image_caption = Clockwise from upper left: [[West Indian manatee]], [[African manatee]], [[Steller's sea cow]], [[dugong]], [[Amazonian manatee]] | taxon = Sirenia | authority = [[Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger|Illiger]], 1811 | subdivision_ranks = Families | subdivision = [[Dugongidae]]<br/> [[Trichechidae]]<br/> †[[Prorastomidae]]<br/> †[[Protosirenidae]] | synonyms = {{Collapsible list|title=List of synonyms| *Halobioidea <small>[[Florentino Ameghino|Ameghino]], 1889</small> *Herbivorae <small>[[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1821</small> *Phycoceta <small>[[Ernst Haeckel|Haeckel]], 1866</small> *Sirenoidea <small>[[Pierre-Joseph van Beneden|van Beneden]], 1855</small> *Sireniformes <small>[[Kenneth Kinman|Kinman]], 1994</small> *Trichechiformes <small>Hay, 1923</small> }} | synonyms_ref = {{sfn|Shoshani|2005}} | range_map = Sirenia distribution.png | range_map_caption=[[West Indian manatee|West Indian]] in green, [[Amazonian manatee|Amazonian]] in red, [[African manatee|African]] in orange, [[dugong]] in blue, [[Steller's sea cow]] circled (yellow) }} '''Sirenia''' is an order of [[herbivorous]] mammals. In this order are the [[dugong]] and three species of [[manatee]]. == Taxonomy == * Order '''Sirenia''' ** Family '''[[Dugongidae]]''' *** [[Dugong]], ''Dugong dugon'' *** [[extinction|†]][[Steller's sea cow]], ''Hydrodamlis gigas'' ** Family '''[[Manatee|Trichechidae]]''' *** [[West Indian manatee]], ''Trichechus manatus'' *** [[African manatee]], ''Trichechus senegalensis'' *** [[Amazonian manatee]], ''Trichechus inunguis'' ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{wikispecies-inline|Sirenia}}<br/> {{commonscat-inline|Sirenia}} [[Category:Sirenia| ]] {{biology-stub}}