Physeteroidea
| Physeteroidea | |
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| Social group of the sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | Mammalia | 
| Order: | Artiodactyla | 
| Suborder: | Whippomorpha | 
| Infraorder: | Cetacea | 
| Parvorder: | Odontoceti | 
| Superfamily: | Physeteroidea Gray 1868 | 
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Physeteroidea is a superfamily that includes three extant species of whales: the sperm whale, in the genus Physeter, and the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale, in the genus Kogia. In the past, these genera have sometimes been united in a single family, the Physeteridae, with the two Kogia species in the subfamily Kogiinae; however, recent practice is to allocate the genus Kogia to its own family, the Kogiidae, leaving the Physeteridae as a monotypic (single extant species) family, although additional fossil representatives of both families are known.