Kogia

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Kogia
Temporal range: Neogene (Late Miocene)-Holocene 5.3–0  Ma
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Dwarf sperm whale, Kogia sima
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Kogiidae
Subfamily: Kogiinae
Genus: Kogia
J. E. Gray, 1846
Type species
Physeter breviceps
Blainville, 1838
Species

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Kogia distribution
K. breviceps in blue, K. sima in pink

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

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