Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838) 
AphiaID: 137113

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Odontoceti > Physeteridae > Kogia

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: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 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: 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. [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] context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Afrikaans dwergpotvis  [details] Basque katxalote pigmeoa  [details] Czech vorvaň malý  [details] Dutch dwergpotfisch  [details] Dutch dwergpotvis  [details] English lesser cachalot  [details] English lesser sperm whale  [details] English pygmy sperm whale  [details] English short-headed sperm whale  [details] English small sperm whale  [details] French cachalot nain  [details] French cachalot pygmée  [details] German Zwergpottwal  [details] German Zwergpotwal  [details] Indonesian paus lodan kecil jumba  [details] Italian cogia di De Blainville  [details] Japanese komakko  [details] Japanese marugashira-komakko  [details] Japanese tsunabi  [details] Japanese uki kujira  [details] Japanese zaru kaburi  [details] Korean kkoma-hyang-gorae  [details] Lithuanian nykštukinis kašalotas  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Πυγμαίος φυσητήρας  [details] Norwegian dverg-spermhval  [details] Polish kogia krótkogłowa  [details] Portuguese cachalote anão  [details] Portuguese cachalote pigmeu  [details] Russian karlikovyi kashalot  [details] Russian malyi kashalot  [details] Russian кашалот карликовый  [details] Slovenian mali glavač  [details] Spanish cachalote pigmeo  [details] Swedish dvärgkaskelot  [details] Telugu wongu  [details] Turkish cüce ispermecet balinası  [details] Turkish cüce ispermeçet balinası  [details] Ukrainian Карликовий кашалот  [details] Ukrainian Кашалот карликовий  [details] Welsh morfil sberm lleiaf  [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Comores [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Tanzania [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links		Marine Life Information Network - UK MarineBio.org To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (178 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (190 nucleotides; 119 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI 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: all oceans [details] Distribution: East Pacific; Eastern Atlantic Ocean; Indo-West Pacific; Western Atlantic Ocean [details] Habitat: tropical to warm temperate, oceanic, mostly near continental slope [details] Habitat: offshore [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]
Images		Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 20) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:46:45 Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 22) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:46:57 Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 61) added on 2008-06-04 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:47:05 Stranded pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) - California, 1955 added on 2009-04-23 - author: Carl L. Hubbs () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 18:34:04
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137113
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van der Land, Jacob 2007-12-22 19:25:59Z   changed   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2008-08-20 11:25:36Z   checked   Perrin, William
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		Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838). In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137113 on 2013-05-21