Cetacea taxon details

Kogia sima (Owen, 1866)

159025  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159025)

accepted
Species
Callignathus simus Gill, 1871 · unaccepted (synonym)
Kogia simus (Owen, 1866) · unaccepted (Justified emendation of spelling...)  
Justified emendation of spelling to "sima" retains the authorship and date of the original name (IZCM 19.2).
Physeter (Euphyseter) simus Owen, 1866 · alternative representation
Physeter simus Owen, 1866 · unaccepted (basionym)
marine, terrestrial
(of Physeter (Euphyseter) simus Owen, 1866) 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]   
Note Waltair, India  
From editor or global species database
Type locality Waltair, India [details]
Distribution Tropical and subtropical waters of all oceans.  
Distribution Tropical and subtropical waters of all oceans. [details]
Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2024). World Cetacea Database. Kogia sima (Owen, 1866). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159025 on 2024-03-19
Date
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by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z
created
2005-06-27 07:51:37Z
changed
2007-12-22 19:25:59Z
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2008-08-20 11:25:36Z
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original description  (of Physeter (Euphyseter) simus Owen, 1866) 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]   

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

context source (HKRMS) Jefferson TA. (2005). Monitoring of Indo-Pacific Hampback Dolphin (Sousa chinensis) in Hong Kong waters - Data Analysis. Final report. Submitted to the Agriculture &Fisheries and Conservation Department, The Hong Kong SAR Government. [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.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. <em>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.</em> 723--743., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]   

additional source Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. <em>Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication.</em> 4., available online at http://www.marinemammalscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/MarineMammalsOfTheWorld.pdf [details]   

additional source Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> (246): 1-259., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.246 [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.; 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. (look up in IMIS[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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

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). <em>Biodiversity Journal.</em> 8(4): 947-950. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

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. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Distribution Tropical and subtropical waters of all oceans. [details]

Holotype Skull in British Museum (Natural History), no. 1474c-73.6.25.2, presented by Sir Walter Elliot. [details]

Type locality Waltair, India [details]
LanguageName 
Afrikaans dwergpotvis  [details]
English snub-nosed cachalotdwarf sperm whalecachalote anão  [details]
French cachalot nain  [details]
German Kleinstpottwalkleiner Zwergpottwalkleiner Pottwal [from synonym]  [details]
Indonesian paus lodan kecil  [details]
Italian cogia di Owen [from synonym]cogia [from synonym]  [details]
Japanese オガワコマッコウogawa komakko kujira  [details]
Korean soe-hyang-gorae  [details]
Lithuanian mažasis nykštukinis kašalotas  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Νάνος φυσητήρας  [details]
Polish kogia płaskonosa  [details]
Portuguese cachalote anao  [details]
Russian малый карликовый кашалоткашалот малютка [from synonym]malyi karlikovyi kashalot  [details]
Slovenian pritlikavi glavač [from synonym]  [details]
Spanish cachalote enano  [details]
Telugu wonga  [details]
Thai plawan hua thui khrae  [details]
Turkish cüce sperm balinası [from synonym]cüce ispermecet balinası  [details]
Ukrainian Малий карликовий кашалотКашалот малий карликовий  [details]