Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Odontoceti > Family Kogiidae > Genus Kogia

Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Physeter Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Kogia*	Gray, 1846	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: dwergpotvis

Basque: katxalote pigmeoa

Czech: vorvaň malý

Dutch: dwergpotfisch; dwergpotvis

English: lesser cachalot; lesser sperm whale; pygmy sperm whale; short-headed sperm whale; small sperm whale sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: cachalot nain; 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; コマッコウ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

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: Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Swedish: dvärgkaskelot sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Telugu: wongu

Turkish: cüce ispermecet balinası; 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

basis of record	Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. 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. 723--743.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Perrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp.
additional source	Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 4.
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. (1983). Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 64:1-306.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259.
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	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.
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137113