Kogiidae

pygmy and dwarf sperm whales

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 136982ITIS 621144key worms:136982

2026-08-05: itis_id 621144 via WoRMS external link

Kogiidae is a family comprising at least two extant species of Cetacea, the pygmy and dwarf sperm whales. As their common names suggest, they somewhat resemble sperm whales, with squared heads and small lower jaws, but are much smaller, with much shorter skulls and more notable dorsal fins than sperm whales.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1989 and 1992.R

2
observations: 2
records: 1989–1992
years: 1
datasets

Photo · Heather and Andrew Hodgson · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:136982")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 1 taxon

G Kogia2

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Odontoceti

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Aprixokogia kelloggi · source
Photo · Heather and Andrew Hodgson · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Kogiidae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1373726276

Elsewhere Wikidata · GBIF

Wikidata GBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

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