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x Santapau, H.; Abdulali, Humayun
  1961
The dugong, Dugong dugon (Müller), at Bombay; an incorrect record.
Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 58(3): 796. Dec. 1961.
–Corrects an erroneous report (in The Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island, vol. 1: 137, 1909) of a dugong at Bombay in 1849, which resulted from misreading a newspaper account of the stranding of a baleen whale in Bombay and the sighting of a dugong in Ceylon.

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Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
x  1961Santapau & Abdulali (Bombay; corrects erroneous record; 796.)
India
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean)
x  1961Santapau & Abdulali (DD; Bombay; erroneous report corrected; 796.)
Sri Lanka
x  1961Santapau & Abdulali (DD; m796.)