Steller's Sea Cow

Hydrodamalis gigas

• Group: Sea Cow
• IUCN status: EX

A giant relative of the dugong and manatee, Steller's sea cow grazed seaweed in cold shallow waters around the North Pacific. Slow and trusting, it was hunted out within decades of its discovery and has been extinct since 1768.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Chordata › Mammalia › Sirenia › Dugongidae › Hydrodamalis

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 255025.