Mammalia · Sirenia
Dugong
Dugong dugon
Large marine herbivore with a fluked, dolphin-like tail and a sharply downturned, bristle-lined snout that plows through soft seafloor sediment, leaving long serpentine feeding trails behind.
- Realm
- Coastal
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and versionA sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1480 licence-filtered records across 39 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (17)
- Dugong Aerial Survey 2019 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Dugong Aerial Surveys 1984-2019 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Happywhale - Dugong in South Pacific Ocean (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Incidental Fauna Observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Incidental Records A. B. Freeman (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Individual sighting (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Mammal strandings from the Oceania Database (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Wildlife Rehab Database (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)