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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Physeter

WoRMS 137032ITIS 180487key worms:137032
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180487 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Physeter macrocephalus

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

Photograph of Physeter
Photo · Will Falcon aka Vitaly Sokol · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Physeter is a genus of toothed whales. There is only one living species in this genus: the sperm whale.W CalCOFI holds 42 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2020.R

42
observations
42
records
1987–2020
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:137032")