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Taxonomy
Physeter breviceps was named by Blainville (1838) [no type specimen listed by Blainville 1838]. It is extant. Its type specimen is MNHM unnumbered specimen, a skull. Its type locality is Cape of Good Hope, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in South Africa. It is the type species of Kogia.
It was recombined as Kogia breviceps by Gray (1846), Gray (1850), Gray (1866), Gray (1868), Gill (1871), Van Beneden and Gervais (1880), Trouessart (1904), Oliver (1922), Schulte (1937), Sherman (1952), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hershkovitz (1966), Barnes (1977), Pilleri (1987), Vidal (1991), Rice (1998), Kazár (2002), Mead and Brownell (2005), Bloodworth and Odell (2008), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Uhen et al. (2008) and Velez-Juarbe et al. (2015).
It was recombined as Kogia breviceps by Gray (1846), Gray (1850), Gray (1866), Gray (1868), Gill (1871), Van Beneden and Gervais (1880), Trouessart (1904), Oliver (1922), Schulte (1937), Sherman (1952), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hershkovitz (1966), Barnes (1977), Pilleri (1987), Vidal (1991), Rice (1998), Kazár (2002), Mead and Brownell (2005), Bloodworth and Odell (2008), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Uhen et al. (2008) and Velez-Juarbe et al. (2015).
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Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1838 | Physeter breviceps Blainville p. 337 figs. Plate 10 |
1846 | Kogia breviceps Gray p. 22 |
1850 | Kogia breviceps Gray p. 53 |
1851 | Euphysetes grayii MacLeay p. 37 |
1865 | Euphysetes grayii Gray p. 529 |
1865 | Kogia brevirostris Gray p. 529 |
1865 | Euphysetes macleayi Kreft |
1866 | Kogia breviceps Gray p. 217 |
1866 | Kogia grayii Gray p. 218 |
1866 | Kogia macleayii Gray p. 391 |
1868 | Euphysetes grayii Gray p. 4 |
1868 | Kogia breviceps Gray p. 4 |
1868 | Kogia macleayii Gray p. 4 |
1871 | Kogia breviceps Gill p. 738 |
1871 | Kogia floweri Gill p. 738 |
1871 | Kogia grayi Gill p. 738 |
1871 | Kogia macleayi Gill p. 738 |
1873 | Euphysetes pottsii Haast p. 100 |
1880 | Kogia breviceps Van Beneden and Gervais p. 349 |
1884 | Kogia goodie True |
1904 | Kogia breviceps Trouessart p. 774 |
1922 | Kogia breviceps Oliver p. 566 |
1937 | Kogia breviceps Schulte p. 364 |
1952 | Kogia breviceps Sherman p. 99 |
1963 | Kogia breviceps Scheffer and Rice p. 8 |
1966 | Kogia breviceps Hershkovitz p. 113 |
1977 | Kogia breviceps Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1 |
1987 | Kogia breviceps Pilleri p. 53 |
1991 | Kogia breviceps Vidal p. 5 |
1998 | Kogia breviceps Rice p. 84 |
2002 | Kogia breviceps Kazár p. 163 |
2005 | Kogia breviceps Mead and Brownell p. 737 |
2008 | Kogia breviceps Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5 |
2008 | Kogia breviceps Bloodworth and Odell p. 1 |
2008 | Kogia breviceps Uhen et al. p. 574 |
2015 | Kogia breviceps Velez-Juarbe et al. p. 15 figs. Fig. 10 |
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Kogia breviceps Blainville 1838 [pygmy sperm whale]
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Invalid names: Euphysetes grayii MacLeay 1851 [synonym], Euphysetes pottsii Haast 1873 [synonym], Kogia brevirostris Gray 1865 [invalid subgroup], Kogia floweri Gill 1871 [synonym], Kogia goodie True 1884 [synonym], Kogia macleayii Kreft 1865 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available