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Definition of Kogia breviceps
1. Noun. Small sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America.
Generic synonyms: Toothed Whale
Group relationships: Genus Kogia, Kogia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kogia Breviceps
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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