Steller's sea cow

Scientific name: Hydrodamalis gigas

Officially approvedEntity code: ENT-0513

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Habitat

Where it lives

Marine and coastal habitats

Where it is found

In historical times, the range of Hydrodamalis gigas appears to have been limited to the coastal waters of the Komandorski Islands and the Near Islands.

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Bones of Steller's sea cow, their identity confirmed by mitochondrial DNA analysis, have been found on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska, far north of its known historical range.

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1Hydrodamalis gigas (Steller's sea cow)SRC-DSC-AD9D95B197

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1Hydrodamalis gigas (Steller's sea cow)SRC-DSC-AD9D95B197
2Rewriting the history of an extinction: was a population of Steller's sea cows (Hydrodamalis gigas) at St Lawrence Island also driven to extinction?SRC-DSC-91B21B7D97

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