Physeteridae
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180486 via WoRMS external link
Physeteroidea is a superfamily that includes three extant species of whales: the sperm whale, in the genus Physeter, and the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale, in the genus Kogia.W CalCOFI holds 44 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1987 and 2022.R
- 44
- observations
- 44
- records
- 1987–2022
- years
- 2
- datasets
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 inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis 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:136985")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:136985'").df()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 Physeter44
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Odontoceti
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Michael Tripoli · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Eophyseter damarcoi · source
- Photo · Corey Lange · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Physeteroidea” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1368283654
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.20
Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗