Use of tusks in feeding by dugongid sirenians: Observations and tests of hypotheses

Anatomical Record

Volumn 290, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 523-538

  Domning, Daryl P ^a   Beatty, Brian L ^b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dental microwear; Dugong dugon; Feeding; Seagrass rhizomes; Sirenia, Dugongidae; Stomach contents; Tusk

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DUGONG; FEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GEOMETRY; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOME; SEAGRASS; SIRENIA; STOMACH CONTENT;

ANIMALS; DUGONG; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; MALE; RHIZOME; SKULL; TOOTH; TOOTH ABRASION;

DUGONG DUGON; DUGONGIDAE; DUGONGINAE; MAMMALIA; SIRENIA;

EID: 34250656244     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20540     Document Type: Article

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