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x Spain, Alister V.; Heinsohn, George Edwin
  1974
A biometric analysis of measurement data from a collection of North Queensland dugong skulls, Dugong dugon (Müller).
Austral. Jour. Zool. 22: 249-257. 3 tabs. 8 figs.
–A study of size allometry in 52 skulls and mandibles using 26 variables indicated that condylo-premaxillary length at the attainment of sexual maturity is about 34 cm, and that the snout region shows positive allometry, the cranial region, negative or no allometry.

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Accidental Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Conservation; Hunting and Capture; Natural Death or Injury)
x *1974Heinsohn & Spain (DD; Australia; nets; 146-152.)
Australia
x  1974Heinsohn & Spain (DD; Queensland; effects of cyclone; 143-152.)
x  1974Spain & Heinsohn (DD; skull allometry; 249.)
Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
x  1974Heinsohn & Spain (DD; Queensland; shark net captures; 148.)
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
x *1974Heinsohn & Spain (Queensland; netting; sex & age ratios; effects of cyclone; 143-152.)
x  1974Spain & Heinsohn (Australia; cranial & mandibular allometry; 249-257.)
Embryology and Ontogeny
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Growth Rates; Teratology)
x  1974Spain & Heinsohn (DD; Queensland; cranial allometry; 249-257.)
Food Plants: Sargassum
x  1974Heinsohn & Spain (Queensland; after cyclone; 151.)
Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
x *1974Heinsohn & Spain (DD; Queensland; shark nets; 146-152.)
Individual Variation
(SEE ALSO: Skeleton)
x *1974Spain & Heinsohn (DD; Queensland; skull allometry; 249-257.)
Migration and Movements
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Aggregative; Behavior, Shelter-seeking; Locomotion; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1974Heinsohn & Spain (DD; Queensland; after cyclone; 151.)
Skeleton
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
x *1974Spain & Heinsohn (DD; cranial allometry; 249-257.)