Kogia sima Owen 1866

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 723-743 : 737

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scientific name	Kogia sima Owen 1866
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Kogia sima Owen 1866 , Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., 6 (1): 30.

Type Locality: India, Andhra Pradesh (= Madras Presidency), "taken at Waltair".

Vernacular Names: Dwarf Sperm Whale.

Distribution: Worldwide: warm-temperate to tropical waters, occasionally strands in cold-temperate areas.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Nagorsen (1985, Mammalian Species, 239) and Caldwell and Caldwell (1989). The specific name simus. -a, -um is a Latin adjectival form and has to agree in gender with the generic name Kogia ( Rice, 1998:84) .