Kogia

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 159024ITIS 180490key worms:159024

2026-08-05: itis_id 180490 via WoRMS external link

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

Photo · Martin Kaehrle · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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:159024")

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

sp Kogia breviceps Pygmy Sperm Whale2

Lineage 13 ranks · Biota to Kogiidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Kogia breviceps · source
Photo · Martin Kaehrle · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Kogia” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1347422866

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

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

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