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Kogia sima Owen 1866
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Kogia sima Owen 1866
Kogia sima Owen 1866, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., 6 (1): 30.
Type Locality: India, Andhra Pradesh (= Madras Presidency), "taken at Waltair".
Vernacular Names: Dwarf Sperm Whale.
Distribution: Worldwide: warm-temperate to tropical waters, occasionally strands in cold-temperate areas.
Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Reviewed by Nagorsen (1985, Mammalian Species, 239) and Caldwell and Caldwell (1989). The specific name simus. -a, -um is a Latin adjectival form and has to agree in gender with the generic name Kogia (Rice, 1998:84).
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, pp. 723-743 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 737, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/347D58E1F49DD54E115EEC1EB4531449 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/9C98C1BD385ED43B7E43B5C11BBEBED6 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231535249 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Owen
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cetacea
- Family
- Physeteridae
- Genus
- Kogia
- Species
- sima
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Kogia sima Owen, 1866 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Nagorsen, D. 1985. Kogia simus. Mammalian Species, 239: 1 - 6.
- Caldwell, D. K., and M. C. Caldwell. 1989. Pygmy sperm whale- - Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838); dwarf sperm whale Kogia simus Owen, 1866. Pp. 235 - 260, in Handbook of marine mammals: River dolphins and the larger toothed whales (S. H. Ridgway and R. Harrison, eds.). Academic Press, London, 4: 1 - 442.
- Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world: Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy, Special Publication, 4: 1 - 230.