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x Pirlot, Paul; Kamiya, Toshiro
  1985
Qualitative and quantitative brain morphology in the sirenian Dugong dugong Erxl.
Zs. Zool. Syst. Evol.-Forsch. 23(2): 147-155. 3 tabs. 5 figs.
–German summ. Describes the gross features, biometrics, and encephalization of the dugong brain, and makes crude comparisons of its "evolutionary level" with those of other mammals (especially dolphins). Concludes that the dugong exhibits an "average degree" of evolutionary progression.

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Brain and Nervous System
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs)
 D 1985Kamiya et al. (DD, Paleoparadoxia; brain)
x  1985Pirlot & Kamiya (DD; brain; 147-155.)
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
x  1985Pirlot & Kamiya ("D. dugong"; brain morphology; 147-155.)
Paleoparadoxia tabatai (Tokunaga, 1939) Reinhart, 1959
 D 1985Kamiya et al. (brain)
Sense Organs
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception; Brain and Nervous System; Digestive System; Skeleton; Sound Production)
x  1985Pirlot & Kamiya (DD; importance of sinus hairs; 154.)