KOGIIDAE, Gill, 1871

Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2014, Kogiidae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 4 Sea Mammals, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 318-325 : 318

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6600625
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6600566
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scientific name	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.