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Kogia sima (dwarf sperm whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Kogiidae

Taxonomy
Physeter (Euphysetes) simus was named by Owen (1866). It is extant. Its type specimen is BMNH 1474c-73.6.25.2, a skeleton. Its type locality is Waltair, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in India.

It was recombined as Callignathus simus by Gill (1871) and Gill (1871); it was recombined as Kogia simus by Schulte (1937), Yamata (1954), Barnes (1977), Nagorsen (1985), Vidal (1991) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); it was synonymized subjectively with Kogia breviceps by Hershkovitz (1966); it was recombined as Kogia sima by Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Bloodworth and Odell (2008) and Velez-Juarbe et al. (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1866Physeter (Euphysetes) simus Owen p. 30 figs. Plates 10-14
1871Callignathus simus Gill p. 738
1937Kogia simus Schulte p. 364
1954Kogia simus Yamata p. 37
1977Kogia simus Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1
1985Kogia simus Nagorsen p. 1
1991Kogia simus Vidal p. 5
1998Kogia sima Rice p. 108
2005Kogia sima Mead and Brownell p. 737
2008Kogia simus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5
2008Kogia sima Bloodworth and Odell p. 1
2015Kogia sima Velez-Juarbe et al. p. 15 figs. Fig. 10

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
superfamilyPhyseteroidea
familyKogiidae
subfamilyKogiinae
genusKogia
speciessima()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Kogia sima Owen 1866 [dwarf sperm whale]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available