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 sima (Owen, 1866)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Kogia*	Gray, 1846	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Kogia simus*	(Owen, 1866)	orthographic variant
*Physeter (Euphyseter) simus*	Owen, 1866	synonym; alternate representation

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: dwergpotvis

English: cachalote anão; dwarf sperm whale; snub-nosed cachalot sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: cachalot nain

German: kleiner Zwergpottwal; Kleinstpottwal sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Νάνος φυσητήρας sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Indonesian: paus lodan kecil

Japanese: ogawa komakko kujira; オガワコマッコウ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Korean: soe-hyang-gorae

Lithuanian: mažasis nykštukinis kašalotas sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: kogia płaskonosa sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: cachalote anao

Russian: malyi karlikovyi kashalot; малый карликовый кашалот sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: cachalote enano

Telugu: wonga

Thai: plawan hua thui khrae

Turkish: cüce ispermecet balinası sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Кашалот малий карликовий

Literature

basis of record	Culik, B. (2000). Convention on Migratory Species: Whales and Dolphins.
additional source	Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 4.
additional source	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	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	Maio, N.; Pollaro, F.; Gasparro, A.; Petraccioli, A.; Mezzasalma, M.; Guariglia, M.; Galiero, G.; Di Nocera, F.; Iaccarino, D.; Santoro, M.; Insacco, G.; Guarino, F. M. (2017). New record of Dwarf Sperm Whale Kogia sima (Owen, 1866) from the Mediterranean Sea (Cetacea Kogiidae). Biodiversity Journal. 8(4): 947-950.
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	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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

Citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Kogia sima (Owen, 1866). 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:159025