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WoRMS taxon details
Kogia sima (Owen, 1866)
AphiaID: 159025
AphiaID: 159025
| 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 |
Callignathus simus Gill, 1871 (synonym) Kogia simus Yamata, 1954 Physeter simus Owen, 1866 (basionym) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Owen,[R.]. (1866). On some Indian Cetacea collected by Walter Elliot, Esq. Transactions of the Zoological Society, London 6(1);30, pl. 10--14. [details] basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Culik, B. 2000. Convention on Migratory Species: Whales and Dolphins., available online at http://www.wcmc.org.uk/cms/reports/small_cetaceans/data/K_sima/K_sima.htm [details] additional source: 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] source of synonymy: Aphia-team [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores (from synonym) [details] European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] Kenya (from synonym) [details] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] North West Atlantic [details] Reunion (from synonym) [details] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] Somalia (from synonym) [details] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To Barcode of Life To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Tropical and subtropical waters of all oceans. [details] Distribution: circum-global [details] Habitat: tropical to warm temperate, mostly offshore [details] Holotype: Skull in British Museum (Natural History), no. 1474c-73.6.25.2, presented by Sir Walter Elliot. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Type locality: Waltair, India [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2009). Kogia sima (Owen, 1866). In: Perrin, W.F. World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159025 on 2010-02-09 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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