Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1

Kogia simus

Description

Kogia simus (Owen, 1866). Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., 6(1):30, pls. 10-14.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Andhra Pradesh (= Madras Presidency), "taken at Waitair".

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: warm-temperate to tropical waters, occasionally strands in coldtemperate areas.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Nagorsen (1985, Mammalian Species, 239) and Caldwell and Caldwell (1989).

Notes

Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 359, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Owen
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Cetacea
Family
Physeteridae
Genus
Kogia
Species
simus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Kogia simus (Owen, 1866) sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993