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Kogia sima (dwarf sperm whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Kogiidae

Taxonomy
Physeter (Euphysetes) simus was named by Owen (1866). It is extant. Its type specimen is BMNH 1474c-73.6.25.2, a skeleton. Its type locality is Waltair, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in India.

It was recombined as Callignathus simus by Gill (1871) and Gill (1871); it was recombined as Kogia simus by Schulte (1937), Yamata (1954), Barnes (1977), Nagorsen (1985), Vidal (1991), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); it was synonymized subjectively with Kogia breviceps by Hershkovitz (1966); it was recombined as Kogia sima by Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Bloodworth and Odell (2008), Velez-Juarbe et al. (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1866Physeter (Euphysetes) simus Owen p. 30
1871Callignathus simus Gill p. 738
1937Kogia simus Schulte p. 364
1954Kogia simus Yamata p. 37
1977Kogia simus Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1
1985Kogia simus Nagorsen p. 1
1991Kogia simus Vidal p. 5
1998Kogia sima Rice p. 108
2005Kogia sima Mead and Brownell p. 737
2008Kogia simus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5
2008Kogia sima Bloodworth and Odell p. 1
2015Kogia sima Velez-Juarbe et al. p. 15 figs. Fig. 10

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
—Pelagiceti
—Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
superfamilyPhyseteroidea
familyKogiidae
subfamilyKogiinae
genusKogia
speciessima()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Kogia sima Owen 1866 [dwarf sperm whale]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatitesubo
Form: roller-shapedo
Ontogeny: modification of partso
Environment: marine, freshwatersubo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: aquatico
Depth habitat: surfaceo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Reproduction: viviparoussubo
Created: 2005-03-06 14:21:39
Modified: 2005-09-22 15:42:08
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
Reference: Uhen 2004

Age range: base of the Piacenzian to the top of the Holocene or 3.60000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.58Italy Kogia simus (47428)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0India (Andhra Pradesh) Physeter simus (type locality: 86882)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0New Caledonia Kogia sima (83477 83479 83480)