CETACEA: PHYSETERIDAE— KOGIIDAE 653 



(J. A. Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 1, p. 205, 1869), and Narragansett 

 Bay near Tiverton, R. I. (Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 21, 

 p. 31, 1869). 



Family Physeteridae (sperm whales) 

 Genus PHYSETER Linnaeus 

 1758. Physeter Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 76. (Type, 

 Physeter catodon Linnaeus.) 



Physeter catodon Linnaeus* (sperm whale) 



1758. [Physeter] catodon Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 76. 

 1884. Physeter macroccphalus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., 



Circ. 29) , p. 590, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1911. Physeter catodon Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1911, pt. 1, p. 157, 



Mar. 22, 1911. 

 Type Locality. — Kairston, Orkney Islands (Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1911, pt. 1, p. 157, Mar. 22, 1911). Range.— In western North Atlantic 

 from Iceland (International Whaling Statistics, No. 15, Oslo, p. 9, 1941) and 

 Davis Straits (International Whaling Statistics, No. 2, Oslo, p. 42, 1931) south 

 to Gulf of Mexico, West Indies, Lesser Antilles and coast of Venezuela (Town- 

 send, Zoologica, New York Zool. Soc, vol. 19, No. 1, pi. 2, Apr. 3, 1935) ; in 

 eastern North Pacific from Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea (Preble, North Amer. 

 Fauna No. 46, p. 116, June 27, 1923), south to Golfo de Panama (Townsend, 

 loc. cit.). 



Family Kogiidae (pigmy sperm whales) 

 Genus KOGIA Gray 

 1846. Kogia Gray, in The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, 

 . . . , vol. 1, pt. 3, p. 22. (Type, Physeter brcviceps Blainville.) 



Kogia breviceps (Blainville) * (pigmy sperm whale) 



1833. Physeter breviceps Blainville, Ann. d'Anat. et de Physiol., vol. 2, p. 337. 



1846. Kogia breviceps Gray, in The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus 

 and Terror, . . . , vol. 1, pt. 3, p. 22. 



1871. Kogia flowed Gillf, Amer. Nat., vol. 4, p. 738, February 1871. (Off 

 Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico.) 



1884. Kogia breviceps True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), 

 p. 590, Nov. 29, 1884. 



Type Locality. — Region of Cape of Good Hope, Union of South Africa. 

 Range. — In western North Atlantic recorded from Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia 

 (Piers, Proc. and Trans. Nova Scotian Inst. Sci., vol. 15, pp. 95-114, 1923), 

 south to Jupiter Inlet, Florida (G. M. Allen, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ. 511, 

 Zool. Ser., vol. 27, pp. 19-23, Dec. 8, 1941) ; and in eastern North Pacific from 

 Grayland, Wash. (Scheffer and Slipp, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 39, No. 2, p. 307, 

 March 1948) and Hawaiian Islands (Edmondson, Journ. Mamm., vol. 29, No. 1, 

 p. 76, Feb. 13, 1948) south to near Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico (Gill, Amer. 

 Nat., vol. 4, p. 738, February 1871). 



