First record of a dugong (Dugong dugon Mu ¨ ller, 1776) in Fiji Renee Hill-Lewenilovo A , Roko Vuiyasawa A and Susanna Piovano A,B Dugongs (Dugong dugon Mu ¨ller, 1776) generally occur in shallow coastal waters of the tropical and subtropical Indo-West Pacific, from the eastern coast of Africa in the west to Vanuatu in the east (Marsh and Sobtizck 2015). Thus, this first recorded dugong in Fiji (Fig. 1) is probably a vagrant. Vagrant dugongs can cross open oceanic waters, with the longest known migra- tion (over 1000 km in the Indian Ocean) recorded for a solitary 2-m-long male (Hobbs et al. 2007). The dugong, discovered in Fiji on 20 May 2018, was found dead on Kiuva Beach (À18.070S, 178.662W), more than 600 km from the nearest known dugong population. Accord- ing to the discoverers, the recently deceased individual had two wounds (one dorsal, one ventral) resembling spear wounds. However, the dugong was partially burned at the time of our examination, which occurred the morning after the discovery, and all surface marks were no longer visible. Phone A School of Marine Studies, The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus, Suva, Fiji. B Corresponding author. Email: susanna.piovano@usp.ac.fj Received 28 June 2018 Accepted 21 October 2018 Published online 5 November 2018 Fig. 1. The vagrant dugong found dead in Fiji on 20 May 2018 (photograph: Vilikesa Karalo). CSIRO PUBLISHING Pacific Conservation Biology, 2019, 25, 324–325 https://doi.org/10.1071/PC18059 Journal compilation Ó CSIRO 2019 www.publish.csiro.au/journals/pcb Field Note