KOGIIDAE, Gill, 1871
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6600625 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6600566 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F487DC-FFC6-0300-2CCE-FD997EF98C06 |
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KOGIIDAE |
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Family KOGIIDAE View in CoL (PYGMY AND DWARF SPERM WHALES)
• Medium-sized toothed whales with underslung lower jaws, blunt squarish heads, robust bodies tapering abruptlyto tail flukes, and spermaceti organs; suctionfeeding, cephalopodspecialists.
• 200-420 cm. View Figure
• Cosmopolitan in temperate and tropical seas. View Figure
• Shoreward and seaward ofcontinental shelves in waters of 400-3500 m or more.
• 1 genus, 2 species, 2 taxa.
• No species threatened; none Extinct since 1600.
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