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Send me a neat marine creature (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

manatee

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'marine creature' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both animals as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'send me a neat' is the wordplay.
'send' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen 'sends' mean this (send can mean excite or stir)).
'me'+'a'+'neat'='meaneat'
'meaneat' is an anagram of 'MANATEE'.

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(Other definitions for manatee that I've seen before include "Large swimmer" , "Beast" , "Sea cow - emanate (anag)" , "sea creature appears" , "rare sea mammal" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror and The Daily Express.
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