Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia 
Bibliography Record
| x | Lipkin, Yaacov | ||
| 1976 | Food of the Red Sea Dugong (Mammalia: Sirenia) from Sinai. Israel Jour. Zool. 24: 81-98. 6 tabs. 1 fig. June 1976. –Analyzes the stomach and intestinal contents of 6 dugongs from the northern Red Sea. Nearly all the contents were seagrasses, with some algal and animal material, probably ingested casually. Discusses the dugong's feeding habits and possible movements; concludes that dugongs eat whatever is available, but prefer delicate seagrasses. | ||
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Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (DD; Red Sea; 94.) |
Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (DD; Red Sea; feeding & resting areas; 88-90, 94.) |
Digestive System
(SEE ALSO: Excretion and Defecation; Food; Mastication; Parasites; Parasitology; Sense Organs)
(SEE ALSO: Excretion and Defecation; Food; Mastication; Parasites; Parasitology; Sense Organs)
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (DD; Red Sea; digestive tract contents; 86-88, 94, 96.) |
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
| x | * | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (Red Sea; stomach contents & feeding; 81-96.) |
Food
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive; Captivity, Sirenians in; Digestive System; Food Plants; Weed Control) (NOTE: Plants reported as part of the captive but not the natural diet of sirs. will not necessarily be found under Food Plants. Papers referring to them are, however, indexed here.)
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive; Captivity, Sirenians in; Digestive System; Food Plants; Weed Control) (NOTE: Plants reported as part of the captive but not the natural diet of sirs. will not necessarily be found under Food Plants. Papers referring to them are, however, indexed here.)
| x | * | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (DD; Red Sea; stomach contents; 81-96.) |
Food Plants: Caulerpa racemosa
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (Red Sea; 94, 96.) |
Food Plants: Caulerpa serrulata
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (Red Sea; 94, 96.) |
Food Plants: Caulerpa taxifolia
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (Red Sea; 94, 96.) |
Food Plants: Chaetomorpha
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (Red Sea; 94.) |
Food Plants: Cymodocea rotundata
| x | * | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (Red Sea; 82, 87-89, 91.) |
Food Plants: Cymodocea serrulata
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (review; 82, 91.) |
Food Plants: Enhalus acoroides
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (review; 82, 91, 92.) |
Food Plants: Halodule pinifolia
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (review; 82, 91.) |
Food Plants: Halodule uninervis
| x | * | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (Red Sea; 82-83, 87-92, 96.) |
Food Plants: Halophila decipiens
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (review; 82, 91.) |
Food Plants: Halophila ovalis
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (review, 82; Red Sea, not eaten, 89.) |
Food Plants: Halophila ovata
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (review; 82, 91.) |
Food Plants: Halophila spinulosa
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (review; 82, 91.) |
Food Plants: Halophila stipulacea
| x | * | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (Red Sea; 82, 87-92, 96.) |
Food Plants: Posidonia australis
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (review; 82, 91-92.) |
Food Plants: Stypopodium zonale
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (Red Sea; 88, 92.) |
Food Plants: Syringodium isoetifolium
| x | * | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (Red Sea; 82, 87-92.) |
Food Plants: Thalassia hemprichii
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (Red Sea; 89, 91, 94, 96.) |
Food Plants: Thalassodendron ciliatum
| x | * | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (Red Sea; 82, 87-92, 96.) |
Food Plants: Udotea argentea
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (Red Sea; 94.) |
Food Plants: Zostera capensis
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (review; 82, 91.) |
Food Plants: Zostera capricornis
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. ("Z. capricorni"; review; 82, 91.) |
Mastication
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (DD; thought ineffective at chewing dry plants, 88, or algae, 92-93.) |
Paleoecology and Taphonomy
| x | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (angiosperms vs. algae in early sir. diet; 92-93.) |
Red Sea
(SEE ALSO: Africa; Asia)
(SEE ALSO: Africa; Asia)
| x | * | 1976 | Lipkin, Y. (DD; stomach contents & feeding; 81-96.) |