A Study on the craniometry and morphological structure of the skull of dugong (dugong dugon) found in the Philippines
/Erwin Rommel Carbonell Sera
- March 1998
- xii, 43 pages, 12 plates ; 28 cm.
A study was conducted on the crainometry and morphological structure of dugong found in the Philippines (Palwan)(Dugong dugon). Two skulls of dugong borrwed from Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB) and the National Museum were studied with the objective of describing, measuring and comparing with the studies done in Australia. Parameters include important craniometric points of the skull description of cranial and facial bones individually, presence and absence of paired and unpaired bones.