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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chronicled the only record of this species as a by-catch at Pohang (central east coast) in 2003 (Pohang Coast Guard, unpublished data).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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Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4571914 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1 (DOI)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03A0BE3B6476FFC3FF4FFA4DFE2D5020 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/154499132 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/27944/taxon/03A0BE3B6476FFC3FF4FFA4DFE2D5020.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Blainville
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Cetacea
Family
Kogiidae
Genus
Kogia
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