Kogia
Kogia | |
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Dwarf sperm whale, Kogia sima | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Kogiidae |
Subfamily: | Kogiinae |
Genus: | Kogia G.R. Gray, 1846 |
Species | |
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Kogia is a genus of toothed whales within the superfamily Physeteroidea comprising two extant and two extinct species from the Neogene
- Pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps
- Dwarf sperm whale, Kogia sima
- †Kogia pusilla, Italy, Middle Pliocene
- † Pisco Formation, Peru, latest Miocene
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Categories:
- Sperm whales
- Cetacean genera
- Taxa named by George Robert Gray
- Cetacean stubs