Kogia breviceps

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Kogia breviceps - small sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America

pygmy sperm whale

toothed whale - any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.

genus Kogia, Kogia - pygmy sperm whales

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A pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) measuring 2.23 meters was 'heavily emaciated' and died at 11 a.m.

Thin, wounded whales found dead in Bicol shores

With the exception of the pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) and the extremely rare North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica), all cetacean species known to occur in the Hawaiian Islands EEZ were sighted during the HICEAS in 2010.

Abundance estimates of cetaceans from a line-transect survey within the U.S. Hawaiian Islands Exclusive Economic Zone

Morbilliviral infection in a pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) from Taiwanese waters.

Mediterranean fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) threatened by dolphin morbillivirus

KARACHI -- A Pygmy Sperm Whale (Kogia breviceps) was caught by fishermen about 120 nautical miles southwest of Karachi on March 4, said a statement of WWFPakistan here on Friday,

Fishermen catch Pygmy Sperm Whale off the Sindh Coast

2005), observation of Pseudo-nitzschia blooms to link domoic acid toxicity to pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) mortalities along the southeastern coast of the United States (Fire et al.

Enhancing shellfish safety in Alaska through monitoring of harmful algae and their toxins

It was set apart from the pygmy Sperm Whale (Kogia breviceps) by the dorsal fin being more pronounced.