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Kogia
Sign in to saveKogia is a genus of toothed whales within the superfamily Physeteroidea comprising two extant and two extinct species from the Neogene:
Species
Pygmy Sperm Whale
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderCetacea
- FamilyKogiidae
Карликовые кашалоты (лат. Kogia) — род морских млекопитающих подотряда зубатые киты. В нём два современных и один вымерший вид. Единственный род семейства карликовых кашалотов.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 85
- With media
- 7
- Family
- Kogiidae
- Collections
- USNM
- Recorded in
- United States, Peru, South Africa, Puerto Rico
Wikidata facts
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- taxon name
- Kogia
- Commons category
- Kogia
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Kogia
- taxon author citation
- Gray, 1846
- temporal range start
- Miocene
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Encyclopedic overview
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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 †Kogia danomurai Pisco Formation, Peru, latest Miocene
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kogia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.