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WoRMS taxon details
Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838)
AphiaID: 137113
AphiaID: 137113
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Physeteridae (Family) > Kogia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Kogia Gray, 1846 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cogia breviceps Benham, 1901 (synonym) Euphisetes pottsi Tomilin, 1957 (misspelling) Euphysetes grayii Wall, 1851 (synonym) Euphysetes macleayi Gill, 1871 (synonym) Euphysetes pottsi Haast, 1874 (synonym) Kogia brevirostris Gray, 1865 (synonym) Kogia floweri Gill, 1871 (synonym) Kogia goodei True, 1884 (synonym) Kogia grayi Gill, 1871 (synonym) Kogia greyi Trouessart, 1898 (synonym) Kogia macleayi Gill, 1871 (synonym) Physeter breviceps de Blainville, 1838 (basionym) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Blainville, H. de (1838). Sur les cachalots. Ann. fr. étrang. Anat. Physiol. 2:335—337. [details] 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., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details] additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details] additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details] additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008., available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details] additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] 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. [details] 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. [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] North West Atlantic [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | MarineBio.org To GenBank Marine Life Information Network - UK To Marine Species Identification Portal To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: deep water squid and octopus, fish, other invertebrates [details] Dimensions: Length: male 2.7-3.4 m (9-11'), female 2.6-2.9 (8.5-9.5'), at birth 1.2 m (4') [details] Distribution: East Pacific; Eastern Atlantic Ocean; Indo-West Pacific; Western Atlantic Ocean [details] Distribution: all oceans [details] Habitat: offshore [details] Habitat: tropical to warm temperate, oceanic, mostly near continental slope [details] Holotype: Skull in Laboratoire d'Anatomie compareée du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris); no. JAC 1913-279 (mandible), JAC 1927-3 (calvarium); collected by E. Verreaux. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Morphology: False gill markings and underslung lower jaw. [details] Type locality: Region of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2009). Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838). In: Perrin, W.F. World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137113 on 2010-02-09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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