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Kogia breviceps
Description
Kogia breviceps (Blainville, 1838) —Pygmy Sperm Whale
Physeter breviceps Blainville, 1838 p.337; Type locality- Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
Kogia floweri Gill, 1871 p.738; Type locality- Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico.
K. breviceps: Kuroda, 1938 p.13; Kim et al., 2000 p.72; Kim, 2004 p.229.
Range: This species has a limited range in the East Sea (Fig. 82). The South Korean Coast Guard chronicled the only record of this species as a by-catch at Pohang (central east coast) in 2003 (Pohang Coast Guard, unpublished data).
Remarks: Kogia breviceps is considered monotypic, but geographic variation within the species has not been assessed (Chivers et al. 2005).
Notes
Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on page 125, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Kogiidae
- Genus
- Kogia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Blainville
- Species
- breviceps
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Kogia breviceps (Blainville, 1838) sec. Jo, Baccus & Koprowski, 2018
References
- Blainville, H. (1838) Sur les cachalots (On Sperm whales). Annales francaises et etrangeres d'anatomie et de physiologie, appliquees a la medecine et a l'histoire naturelle, 2, 335 - 337. [in French]
- Gill, T. (1871) The sperm whales, giant and pygmy. American Naturalist, 4, 725 - 743. https: // doi. org / 10.1086 / 270684
- Kuroda, N. (1938) A list of the Japanese Mammals. Published by Author, Tokyo, 122 pp.
- Kim, Z. G., Lee, J. U., Baik, C. I., Sohn, H. S., Park, C. S., Lee, D. W., Choi, K. H., Hong, B. Q., Kim, S. T., Park, J. H., Cho, Y. M., Cha, H. K. & Hwang, K. S. (2000) Whales and Dolphins off Korean Peninsula. National Fisheries Research & Development Institute, Busan, 137 pp. [in Korean]
- Kim, Z. G. (2004) Suborder Pinnipedia & Order Cetacea. In: Won, B. O. (Ed.), The mammals of Korea. Dongbang Media Press, Seoul, pp. 184 - 254. [in Korean]
- Chivers, S. J., Le Duc, R. G., Robertson, K. M., Barros, N. B. & Dizon, A. E. (2005) Genetic variation of Kogia spp. with preliminary evidence for two species of Kogia sima. Marine Mammal Science, 21, 619 - 634. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1748 - 7692.2005. tb 01255. x