Kogia sima

(R. Owen, 1866)

Dwarf 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

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Owen, R. 1866-08-15. On some Indian Cetacea collected by Walter Elliot, Esq. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 6(2):17-48.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30862860

Original name as described

Physeter (Euphysetes) simus

Other common names

Owen's Pygmy Whale · Snub-nosed Cachalot

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1866.2.5.6

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/135789ec-2010-4557-9c40-ca9ec2d5d1b4 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/24212b26-1f27-45a8-b4ca-797e522b4555

Type locality

India, Andhra Pradesh (= Madras Presidency), "taken at Waltair," near Vishaknaptnam.

Biogeographic realm

Marine

Country distribution

American Samoa · Angola · Anguilla · Antigua and Barbuda · Argentina · Aruba · Australia · Bahamas · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belize · Benin · Bermuda · Bonaire · Sint Eustatius · Saba · Brazil · Brunei · Cape Verde · Cambodia · Cameroon · Canada · Cayman Islands · Chile · Cocos Islands · Colombia · Comoros · Republic of the Congo · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Cook Islands · Costa Rica · Cuba · Curaçao · Cote d'Ivoire · Djibouti · Dominica · Dominican Republic · Ecuador · Galápagos Islands · El Salvador · Equatorial Guinea · Fiji · French Guiana · French Polynesia · Gabon · Gambia · Ghana · Grenada · Guadeloupe · Guam · Guatemala · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Guyana · Haiti · Honduras · India · Indonesia · Iran · 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 · New Caledonia · New Zealand · Nicaragua · Nigeria · Niue · Norfolk Island · Northern Marianas · Oman · Pakistan · Palau · Panama · Papua New Guinea · Peru · Philippines · Pitcairn · Portugal · Madeira · 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 Africa · Spain · Canary Islands · Sri Lanka · Suriname · Taiwan · China · 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? · Sudan?

Subregion distribution

USA(AL,FL,GA,LA,MI,NC,TX,VA,SC,HI,NY?,NJ?)

Taxonomy 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

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006460

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Physeter (Euphysetes) simus

(R. Owen, 1866)

Family

Kogiidae

Root name

sima

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1866.2.5.6

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/135789ec-2010-4557-9c40-ca9ec2d5d1b4 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/24212b26-1f27-45a8-b4ca-797e522b4555

Authority page

30

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30862860

Authority publication

Transactions of the Zoological Society of London

Kogia simus

Corbet & J. Edwards Hill, 1980

Family

Kogiidae

Root name

simus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

111

Authority publication

London

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:111) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:299) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)

Kogia sima

Mead & Brownell, 2005

Family

Kogiidae

Root name

sima

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

  1. Mead & Brownell (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9684)
  2. Mittermeier & Wilson (2014:325) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67175)
  3. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #11048) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #11048) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006460) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  6. Schmidly, Bradley, Yancey & Bradley (2024:61) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67259)
  7. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/11048/50359330) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Physeter (Euphysetes) simus

(R. Owen, 1865)

Family

Kogiidae

Root name

simus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_nudum

Authority page

511

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28497490

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

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