[Mod.L.] A genus of pygmy sperm-whales.
1898. F. T. Bullen, Cruise ‘Cachalot,’ x. 127. It was but a school of kogia, or ‘short-headed’ cachalots.
1900. Daily News, 22 March, 6/3. One of the whales, known as the Kogia, is peculiar from the inferior position of its mouth. ‘This gives to the creature…,’ says Mr. Beddard, ‘a curiously shark-like aspect.’
