Definition of Kogia breviceps

1. Noun. Small sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America.

Exact synonyms: Pygmy Sperm Whale
Generic synonyms: Toothed Whale
Group relationships: Genus Kogia, Kogia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kogia Breviceps

Kodiaks
Kodimunai
Koehler illumination
Koellia
Koenen's tumour
Koenig's syndrome
Koepanger
Koepangers
Koerber-Salus-Elschnig syndrome
Koerte-Ballance operation
Koestler
Koestlerian
Koettstorfer number
Kofu
Kogia
Kogia breviceps
Kogia simus
Kohima
Kohistan
Kohler's disease
Kohler illumination
Kohlmeier-Degos syndrome
Kohlrausch's muscle
Kohlrausch's valves
Kohn's pores
Kohnstamm's phenomenon
Kohtla-Järve
Koine
Koizumi
Kojac

Literary usage of Kogia breviceps

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1871)
"... folded so as to form a funnel-shaped cavity. 1. kogia breviceps. kogia breviceps, Gray, lc pp. 217, 391; Synops. Whales Sf Dolph. p. 4. ..."

2. The Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jersey: A Biographic, Historic and by Samuel Nicholson Rhoads (1903)
"kogia breviceps Gray, Zoology of Voy. Erebus and Terror, Vol. I, p. 22. Type locality.—Cape of Good Hope. Faunal distribution.—Temperate and tropical seas ..."

3. Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta by John Anderson, William Lutley Sclater, Indian Museum (1891)
"kogia breviceps. Physeter breviceps, Blainville Ann. Anat. Phys., ii, p. 337 (1838)*. kogia breviceps, Gray Zool. Ereb. and Terr., p. ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"... evidently inclining to the opinion that it would prove to be congeneric with kogia breviceps, but on account of the inapplicability of Gray's generic ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1904)
"... grown specimen of the small species of cachalot Co</ia (Kogia) breviceps, stranded near Dunedin in August 1900, found a great quantity of cuttle beaks, ..."

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