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 breviceps (de Blainville, 1838)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Kogia*	Gray, 1846	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Czech: vorvaň malý

Dutch: dwergpotfisch; dwergpotvis; dwergpotvisch

English: lesser cachalot; lesser sperm whale; pygmy sperm whale; short-headed sperm whale; small sperm whale sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

English-United States: Pygmy Sperm Whale sources: Charles Hussey

Euskera: katxalote pigmeoa

French: cachalot pygmé; cachalot pygmée

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

Greek: Πυγμαίος φυσητήρας sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Indonesian: paus lodan kecil jumba

Italian: cogia di De Blainville sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: komakko; marugashira-komakko; tsunabi; uki kujira; zaru kaburi

Korean: kkoma-hyang-gorae

Lithuanian: nykštukinis kašalotas sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: dverg-spermhval

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

Portuguese: cachalote anão; cachalote pigmeu

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

Slovenian: mali glavač sources: Davorin Tome

Spanish, Castillian: cachalote pigmeo sources: ITIS database

Swedish: dvärgkaskelot sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Telugu: wongu

Turkish: cüce ispermeçet balinası sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Карликовий кашалот; Кашалот карликовий sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: morfil sberm lleiaf

Literature

original description	Blainville, H. de (1838). Sur les cachalots. Ann. fr. étrang. Anat. Physiol. 2:335—337.
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.
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.
additional source	King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554.
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	Carwardine, M., E. Hoyt, R. E. Fordyce and P. Gill. 1998. Whales, dolphins and porpoises. Time-Life Books. Nature Company Guides, USA. 288 p.
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.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (178 publications)
Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
Marine Life Information Network - UK
GenBank (190 nucleotides; 119 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Perrin, W. (2014). Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838). 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:137113