Dugong dugon — Common names

Dugong learn more about names for this taxon

Many people know organisms only by the common names, or "vernacular" names. Unlike scientific names, common names are almost always different for speakers of different languages. They may also vary regionally within a language. This tab shows all the common names provided to EOL for this organism from a variety of providers, including EOL curators. Currently we can only set one preferred common name per language on a given EOL page, but all the names should be searchable.

Common names listed by language

Preferred marks the preferred name for each language.

English

Name Sources Status
Alpine Scabious Genome 10K Project Vertebrates Unknown
Dugong Deniz Martinez, Animal Diversity Web Descriptions, BibAlex LifeDesk, IUCN Red List, Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), Mammalia, Monthly ARKive text import , NCBI Taxonomy, South African Vertebrates, Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: April 2013, Taxonomic Hierarchy of COL-China 2012, World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), uBio Trusted
Sea Cow BibAlex LifeDesk, IUCN Red List, uBio Trusted

Afrikaans

Name Sources Status
dugong South African Vertebrates Unknown

Arabic

Name Sources Status
الأطوم BibAlex LifeDesk Trusted
عروس البحر BibAlex LifeDesk Trusted

Chinese

Name Sources Status
人鱼 Taxonomic Hierarchy of COL-China 2012 Trusted
儒艮 Taxonomic Hierarchy of COL-China 2012 Trusted
南海牛 Taxonomic Hierarchy of COL-China 2012 Trusted
海牛 Taxonomic Hierarchy of COL-China 2012 Trusted
海马 Taxonomic Hierarchy of COL-China 2012 Trusted
美人鱼 Taxonomic Hierarchy of COL-China 2012 Trusted

Chinese (Simplified)

Name Sources Status
人鱼 Mammalia Trusted
儒艮 Mammalia Trusted
南海牛 Mammalia Trusted
海牛 Mammalia Trusted
海马 Mammalia Trusted
美人鱼 Mammalia Trusted

Dutch

Name Sources Status
Doejong uBio Unknown

French

Name Sources Status
dugong uBio Unknown

German

Name Sources Status
dugong Josefin Stiller Trusted

Spanish

Name Sources Status
Dugon IUCN Red List, uBio Trusted
dugong uBio Unknown

Turkish

Name Sources Status
dugong World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) Trusted

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