Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Odontoceti > Family Physeteridae > Genus Kogia

Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

KogiaGray, 1846accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Czech: vorvaň malý
 Dutch: dwergpotfisch; dwergpotvis; dwergpotvisch
 English: lesser cachalot; lesser sperm whale; pygmy sperm whale; short-headed sperm whale; small sperm whale sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)
 English-United States: Pygmy Sperm Whale sources: Charles Hussey
 Euskera: katxalote pigmeoa
 French: cachalot pygmé; cachalot pygmée
 German: Zwergpottwal; Zwergpotwal sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Greek: Πυγμαίος φυσητήρας sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Indonesian: paus lodan kecil jumba
 Italian: cogia di De Blainville sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Japanese: komakko; marugashira-komakko; tsunabi; uki kujira; zaru kaburi
 Korean: kkoma-hyang-gorae
 Lithuanian: nykštukinis kašalotas sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian: dverg-spermhval
 Polish: kogia krótkogłowa sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Portuguese: cachalote anão; cachalote pigmeu
 Russian: karlikovyi kashalot; malyi kashalot; кашалот карликовый sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Slovenian: mali glavač sources: Davorin Tome
 Spanish, Castillian: cachalote pigmeo sources: ITIS database
 Swedish: dvärgkaskelot sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Telugu: wongu
 Turkish: cüce ispermeçet balinası sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Ukrainian: Карликовий кашалот; Кашалот карликовий sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Welsh: morfil sberm lleiaf

Literature

original description

Blainville, H. de (1838). Sur les cachalots. Ann. fr. étrang. Anat. Physiol. 2:335—337.

basis of record

Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp.

additional source

Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4.

additional source

Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259.

additional source

King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554.

additional source

Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.

additional source

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

additional source

Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam.

additional source

Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

additional source

Carwardine, M., E. Hoyt, R. E. Fordyce and P. Gill. 1998. Whales, dolphins and porpoises. Time-Life Books. Nature Company Guides, USA. 288 p.

additional source

Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 p.

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (178 publications)
Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
Marine Life Information Network - UK
GenBank (190 nucleotides; 119 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Perrin, W. (2014). Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838). In: Perrin, W.F. (2014) World Cetacea Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137113

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Occurrence

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Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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2008-08-20 by William Perrin

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