Kogia
Genus of mammals
Kogia Temporal range: Neogene-Holocene 5.3–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Dwarf sperm whale, Kogia sima | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Kogiidae |
Subfamily: | Kogiinae |
Genus: | Kogia G.R. Gray, 1846 |
Type species | |
Physeter breviceps Blainville, 1838 | |
Species | |
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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
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Extant Cetacea species
- Kingdom Animalia
- Phylum Chordata
- Class Mammalia
- Infraclass Eutheria
- Superorder Laurasiatheria
- Order Artiodactyla
- Suborder Whippomorpha
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