WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838)

Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838)
AphiaID: 137113

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Physeteridae (Family) > Kogia (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Parent

Kogia Gray, 1846

Synonymised
taxa

Cogia breviceps Benham, 1901 (synonym)
Euphisetes pottsi Tomilin, 1957 (misspelling)
Euphysetes grayii Wall, 1851 (synonym)
Euphysetes macleayi Gill, 1871 (synonym)
Euphysetes pottsi Haast, 1874 (synonym)
Kogia brevirostris Gray, 1865 (synonym)
Kogia floweri Gill, 1871 (synonym)
Kogia goodei True, 1884 (synonym)
Kogia grayi Gill, 1871 (synonym)
Kogia greyi Trouessart, 1898 (synonym)
Kogia macleayi Gill, 1871 (synonym)
Physeter breviceps de Blainville, 1838 (basionym)

Sources

original description: Blainville, H. de (1838). Sur les cachalots. Ann. fr. étrang. Anat. Physiol. 2:335—337. [details]

basis of record: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]

additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details]

additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details]

additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]

additional source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details]

additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]

additional source: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source: Carwardine, M., E. Hoyt, R. E. Fordyce and P. Gill. 1998. Whales, dolphins and porpoises. Time-Life Books. Nature Company Guides, USA. 288 p. [details]

additional source: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 p. [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
Afrikaans	dwergpotvis	[details]
Basque	katxalote pigmeoa	[details]
Czech	vorvaň malý	[details]
Dutch	dwergpotfisch	[details]
Dutch	dwergpotvis	[details]
English	lesser cachalot	[details]
English	lesser sperm whale	[details]
English	pygmy sperm whale	[details]
English	short-headed sperm whale	[details]
English	small sperm whale	[details]
French	cachalot nain	[details]
French	cachalot pygmée	[details]
German	Zwergpottwal	[details]
German	Zwergpotwal	[details]
Indonesian	paus lodan kecil jumba	[details]
Italian	cogia di De Blainville	[details]
Japanese	komakko	[details]
Japanese	marugashira-komakko	[details]
Japanese	tsunabi	[details]
Japanese	uki kujira	[details]
Japanese	zaru kaburi	[details]
Korean	kkoma-hyang-gorae	[details]
Lithuanian	nykštukinis kašalotas	[details]
Modern Greek (1453-)	Πυγμαίος φυσητήρας	[details]
Norwegian	dverg-spermhval	[details]
Polish	kogia krótkogłowa	[details]
Portuguese	cachalote anão	[details]
Portuguese	cachalote pigmeu	[details]
Russian	karlikovyi kashalot	[details]
Russian	malyi kashalot	[details]
Russian	кашалот карликовый	[details]
Slovenian	mali glavač	[details]
Spanish	cachalote pigmeo	[details]
Swedish	dvärgkaskelot	[details]
Telugu	wongu	[details]
Turkish	cüce ispermecet balinası	[details]
Turkish	cüce ispermeçet balinası	[details]
Ukrainian	Карликовий кашалот	[details]
Ukrainian	Кашалот карликовий	[details]
Welsh	morfil sberm lleiaf	[details]

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Distribution

Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Comores [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Mozambique [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Tanzania [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK
MarineBio.org
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (178 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (190 nucleotides; 119 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS

Notes

Diet: deep water squid and octopus, fish, other invertebrates [details]

Dimensions: Length: male 2.7-3.4 m (9-11'), female 2.6-2.9 (8.5-9.5'), at birth 1.2 m (4') [details]

Distribution: all oceans [details]

Distribution: East Pacific; Eastern Atlantic Ocean; Indo-West Pacific; Western Atlantic Ocean [details]

Habitat: tropical to warm temperate, oceanic, mostly near continental slope [details]

Habitat: offshore [details]

Holotype: Skull in Laboratoire d'Anatomie compareée du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris); no. JAC 1913-279 (mandible), JAC 1927-3 (calvarium); collected by E. Verreaux. [details]

IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details]

Morphology: False gill markings and underslung lower jaw. [details]

Type locality: Region of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. [details]

Images

Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 20)
added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:46:45

Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 22)
added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:46:57

Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 61)
added on 2008-06-04 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:47:05

Stranded pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) - California, 1955
added on 2009-04-23 - author: Carl L. Hubbs (

)
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 18:34:04

LSID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137113

Taxonomic
Edit history

Date	action	by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z	created	van der Land, Jacob
2007-12-22 19:25:59Z	changed	Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z	checked	Perrin, William

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Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838). In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137113 on 2013-06-19

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