Family KOGIIDAE (PYGMY AND DWARF SPERM WHALES)

• Medium-sized toothed whales with underslung lower jaws, blunt squarish heads, robust bodies tapering abruptlyto tail flukes, and spermaceti organs; suctionfeeding, cephalopodspecialists.

• 200-420 cm.

• Cosmopolitan in temperate and tropical seas.

• Shoreward and seaward ofcontinental shelves in waters of 400-3500 m or more.

• 1 genus, 2 species, 2 taxa.

• No species threatened; none Extinct since 1600.