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Kogia

WoRMS 159024ITIS 180490key worms:159024
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180490 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Kogia breviceps

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 Kogia
Photo · Martin Kaehrle · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Kogia is a genus of toothed whales within the superfamily Physeteroidea comprising two extant and two extinct species from the Neogene:Pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps Dwarf sperm whale, Kogia sima †Kogia pusilla, Italy, Middle Pliocene †Kogia danomurai Pisco Formation, Peru, latest Miocene…W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1989 and 1992.R

2
observations
2
records
1989–1992
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:159024")