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Marty Silk

Dugong stirs croc spotters off Brisbane

Onlookers mistook a dugong in waters off Brisbane as the snout of a crocodile. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

A snout locals thought was a maneater has turned out to be closer to a manatee with the search for a three-metre saltwater crocodile off Brisbane set to stretch into a fourth day.

Queensland rangers have confirmed an animal snout filmed and photographed breaking the water's surface near Dunwich on North Stradbroke Island, also known as Minjerribah, belonged to a gentle dugong rather than a predatory marine reptile.

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