Kogia

Kogia
Temporal range: Neogene-Holocene 5.3–0 Ma
Dwarf sperm whale, Kogia sima
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Kogiidae
Subfamily: Kogiinae
Genus: Kogia
G.R. Gray, 1846
Type species
Physeter breviceps
Blainville, 1838
Species

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Kogia is a genus of toothed whales within the superfamily Physeteroidea comprising two extant and two extinct species from the Neogene: