Kogia simus (Owen, 1866)

James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 349-364 : 359

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scientific name

Kogia simus (Owen, 1866)
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Kogia simus (Owen, 1866) . Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., 6(1):30, pls. 10-14.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Andhra Pradesh (= Madras Presidency), "taken at Waitair" .

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: warm-temperate to tropical waters, occasionally strands in coldtemperate areas.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Nagorsen (1985, Mammalian Species, 239) and Caldwell and Caldwell (1989).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Physeteridae

Genus

Kogia

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