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chronicled the only record of this species as a by-catch at Pohang (central east coast) in 2003 (Pohang Coast Guard, unpublished data).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).