Kogiidae Gill 1871

Family KOGIIDAE (PYGMY AND DWARF SPERM WHALES) • Medium-sized toothed whales with underslung lower jaws, blunt squarish heads, robust bodies tapering abruptlyto tail flukes, and spermaceti organs; suctionfeeding, cephalopodspecialists. • 200-420 cm. • Cosmopolitan in temperate and tropical seas. • S...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Russell A. Mittermeier, Don E. Wilson
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: Lynx Edicions 2014
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Cetacea
Kogiidae
toothed whales
Lynx
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6600566
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F487DCFFC603002CCEFD997EF98C06
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Summary:Family KOGIIDAE (PYGMY AND DWARF SPERM WHALES) • Medium-sized toothed whales with underslung lower jaws, blunt squarish heads, robust bodies tapering abruptlyto tail flukes, and spermaceti organs; suctionfeeding, cephalopodspecialists. • 200-420 cm. • Cosmopolitan in temperate and tropical seas. • Shoreward and seaward ofcontinental shelves in waters of 400-3500 m or more. • 1 genus, 2 species, 2 taxa. • No species threatened; none Extinct since 1600. Published as part of Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2014, Kogiidae, pp. 318-325 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 4 Sea Mammals, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 318, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6600625

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