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

Kogia sima (Owen, 1866)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Kogia*	Gray, 1846	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Kogia simus*	(Owen, 1866)	orthographic variant
*Kogia simus*	(Owen, 1866)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: dwergpotvis

English: cachalote anão; dwarf sperm whale; snub-nosed cachalot sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: cachalot nain

German: kleiner Zwergpottwal; Kleinstpottwal sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Indonesian: paus lodan kecil

Japanese: ogawa komakko kujira

Korean: soe-hyang-gorae

Polish: kogia płaskonosa sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: cachalote anao

Russian: malyi karlikovyi kashalot; малый карликовый кашалот sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Telugu: wonga

Thai: plawan hua thui khrae

Turkish: cüce ispermecet balinası

Literature

original description	Owen,[R.]. (1866). On some Indian Cetacea collected by Walter Elliot, Esq. Transactions of the Zoological Society, London 6(1);30, pl. 10--14.
basis of record	Culik, B. 2000. Convention on Migratory Species: Whales and Dolphins.
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
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.
additional source	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.
additional source	Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259.

Taxon found in 18 publications.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (210 nucleotides; 168 proteins)
Barcode of Life
GBIF

Citation

Perrin, W. (2014). Kogia sima (Owen, 1866). In: Perrin, W.F. (2014) World Cetacea Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159025