Kogia sima (Owen, 1866) 
AphiaID: 159025

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		Callignathus simus Gill, 1871 (synonym) Kogia simus (Owen, 1866) (Justified emendation of spelling to "sima" retains the authorship and date of the original name (IZCM 19.2).) 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: 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: 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: 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] from synonym: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] [view taxon] 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] English cachalote anão  [details] English dwarf sperm whale  [details] English snub-nosed cachalot  [details] French cachalot nain  [details] German kleiner Pottwal (from synonym)  [details] German kleiner Zwergpottwal  [details] German Kleinstpottwal  [details] Indonesian paus lodan kecil  [details] Italian cogia (from synonym)  [details] Italian cogia di Owen (from synonym)  [details] Japanese 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 malyi karlikovyi kashalot  [details] Russian кашалот малютка (from synonym)  [details] Russian малый карликовый кашалот  [details] Slovenian pritlikavi glavač (from synonym)  [details] Spanish cachalote enano  [details] Telugu wonga  [details] Thai plawan hua thui khrae  [details] Turkish cüce ispermecet balinası  [details] Turkish cüce sperm balinası (from synonym)  [details] Ukrainian Кашалот малий карликовий  [details] Ukrainian Малий карликовий кашалот (from synonym)  [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		Azores Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Comores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Mexico [details] Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Pacific Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Reunion (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links		To Barcode of Life To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (210 nucleotides; 168 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI 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]
Image		Kogia sima added on 2009-02-13 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-05 18:38:12
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159025
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-05-27 09:47:05Z   created   Appeltans, Ward 2005-06-27 07:51:37Z   changed   Cuvelier, Daphne 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 sima (Owen, 1866). 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=159025 on 2013-05-18