Particulars respecting the anatomy of the Dugong, intended as a supplement to Sir T. S. Raffles’s account of that animal

Abstract

The object of this communication is to complete the anatomical description of the Dugong, already presented to the Society by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, who has sent the author a young female animal entire, together with the viscera and skeleton of a male. Drawings representing the external form of the animal, and of its several parts, are annexed. Sir Everard particularly describes the peculiar structure of the stomach of this animal, which differs from all others, and is so complex that description is scarcely intelligible without the aid of a drawing. In some respects it resembles that of the whale, the peccari, hippopotamus, and beaver; at least it contains parts met with in the stomach of those tribes, but the parts are differently situated.