Kogia breviceps
(de Blainville, 1838)
Pygmy Sperm Whale
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Artiodactyla |
| Suborder | : Whippomorpha |
| Infraorder | : Cetacea |
| Parvorder | : Odontoceti |
| Superfamily | : Physeteroidea |
| Family | : Kogiidae |
| Genus | : Kogia |
Species status
Authority citation
Ann. Franc. Etr. Anat. Phys., vol. 2, 337
Original name as described
physeter breviceps
Other common names
Lesser Cachalot · Lesser Sperm Whale · Short-headed Sperm Whale
Type material
MNHN-ZM-MO-1927-3
Type kind
holotype
Type locality
South Africa, Western Cape Province, "rapportée des mers du cap de Bonne-Espérance" (= Cape of Good Hope).
Biogeographic realm
Marine
Country distribution
American Samoa · Angola · Anguilla · Antigua and Barbuda · Argentina · Aruba · Australia · Bahamas · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belgium · Belize · Benin · Bermuda · Bonaire · Sint Eustatius · Saba · Brazil · Brunei · Cape Verde · Cambodia · Cameroon · Canada · Cayman Islands · Chile · China · Cocos Islands · Colombia · Comoros · Republic of the Congo · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Cook Islands · Costa Rica · Cuba · Curaçao · Cote d'Ivoire · Denmark · Djibouti · Dominica · Dominican Republic · Ecuador · El Salvador · Equatorial Guinea · Fiji · France · French Guiana · French Polynesia · Gabon · Gambia · Germany · Ghana · Grenada · Guadeloupe · Guam · Guatemala · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Guyana · Haiti · Honduras · India · Indonesia · Iran · Ireland · Jamaica · Japan · Kenya · Kiribati · North Korea · South Korea · Liberia · Madagascar · Malaysia · Maldives · Marshall Islands · Martinique · Mauritania · Mauritius · Mayotte · Mexico · Micronesia · Montserrat · Morocco · Mozambique · Myanmar · Namibia · Nauru · Netherlands · New Caledonia · New Zealand · Nicaragua · Nigeria · Niue · Norfolk Island · Northern Marianas · Oman · Pakistan · Palau · Panama · Papua New Guinea · Peru · Philippines · Pitcairn · Portugal · Azores · Puerto Rico · Réunion · Saint Barthélemy · Saint Helena · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Sint Maarten · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Samoa · São Tomé and Príncipe · Senegal · Seychelles · Sierra Leone · Singapore · Solomon Islands · Somalia · South Sudan · Spain · Sri Lanka · Suriname · Taiwan · Tanzania · Thailand · East Timor · Togo · Tokelau · Tonga · Trinidad and Tobago · Turks and Caicos Islands · Tuvalu · United Arab Emirates · United Kingdom · United States · Uruguay · Vanuatu · Venezuela · Vietnam · British Virgin Islands · United States Virgin Islands · Wallis and Futuna · Yemen · Eritrea? · Russia?
Subregion distribution
USA(CA,HI,FL,GA,OR?,WA?,AL?,LA?,MI?,TX?,SC?,NC?,VA?,DC?,MD?,DE?,NJ?,NY?,CT?,RI?,MA?)
Distribution references
Carretta, J. V. (2021). U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessments: 2020. https://doi.org/10.25923/R00A-M485Taxonomy notes
moved from Physeteridae to Kogiidae
Taxonomy notes citation
May-Collado, L., & Agnarsson, I. (2006). Cytochrome b and Bayesian inference of whale phylogeny. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 38(2), 344-354. · McGowen, M. R., Tsagkogeorga, G., Álvarez-Carretero, S., dos Reis, M., Struebig, M., Deaville, R., ... & Rossiter, S. J. (2020). Phylogenomic resolution of the cetacean tree of life using target sequence capture. Systematic Biology, 69(3), 479-501.
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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