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Dugongs are related to manatees, both of the order Sirenia (named for their reputations as "mermaids").

Current 2009 estimates are approximately 10,000 in the oceans around the Great Barrier Reef, and another 7,500 indigenous to the Persian Gulf. Other populations are

considerably smaller and diminishing.

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