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Kogia pusilla

Mammalia - Cetacea - Kogiidae

Taxonomy
Hyperoodon pusillus was named by Pilleri (1987). It is not extant. Its type specimen is IGF 1540 V. Its type locality is Volterra, which is in a Piacenzian coastal claystone/sandstone in Italy.

It was recombined as Kogia pusilla by Bianucci (1997), Bianucci et al. (1998), Kazár (2002), Kazár (2002), Cioppi (2014) and Velez-Juarbe et al. (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1987Hyperoodon pusillus Pilleri p. 35 figs. Plate 13 (1-4), Fig. 11
1997Kogia pusilla Bianucci p. 172
1998Kogia pusilla Bianucci et al. p. 124
2002Kogia pusilla Kazár p. 163
2014Kogia pusilla Cioppi p. 87
2015Kogia pusilla Velez-Juarbe et al. p. 15 figs. Fig. 10

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
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
speciespusilla()

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 pusilla Pilleri 1987
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available