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Genus Kogia Gray, 1846

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Genus Kogia Gray, 1846

  • Kogia Gray, J.E. 1846. On the cetaceous animals. pp. 13-53 in Richardson, J. & Gray, J.E. (eds). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the years 1839 to 1843. Vol. 1 Mammalia, Birds 37 pls. London : E.W. Janson [22].
    Type species:
     Physeter breviceps Blainville, 1838 by monotypy.
    Compiled from secondary source:
     Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259.
  • Euphysetes Wall, W.B. 1851. History and description of the skeleton of a new sperm whale, lately set up in the Australian Museum ... together with some account of a new genus of sperm whales called Euphysetes. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 1: i-ii 1-66 [46].
    Type species:
     Euphysetes grayii Wall, 1851 by monotypy.
    Compiled from secondary source:
     Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259 [113] (see also for synonyms based on non-Australian material)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal in tropical and temperate waters.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast

Distribution References

  • Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259