Bibliography for Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758
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- ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study.
- Aitken, P.F. 1971. Whales from the coast of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 95: 95-103
- Anon. 1978. Sperm Whale. pp. 59-63 in [Committee] (ed.). Mammals in the Seas. FAO Fisheries Series 5(1). Rome : FAO/UN.
- Bannister, J.L. 1974. Whale populations and current research off Western Australia. pp. 239-254 in Schevill, W.E. (ed.). The Whale Problem. A status report. Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press pp. 1-419.
- Bannister, J.L. 1989. Physeteridae. pp. 965-969 in Walton, D.W. & Richardson, B.J. (eds). Fauna of Australia. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1B 827 pp.
- Bannister, J.L., Kemper, C.M. & Warneke, R.M. 1996. The Action Plan for Australian Cetaceans. Canberra : Australian Nature Conservation Agency 242 pp.
- Bryden, M.M. 1978. Whales and whaling in Queensland waters. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 89: v-xviii
- Evans, K.R. & Hindell, M.A. 2004. The age structure and growth of female sperm whales (Physeter catodon) in southern Australian waters. Journal of Zoology, London 263: 237-250
- Gaskin, D.E. 1972. Whales, Dolphins and Seals, with Special Reference to the New Zealand Region. London : Heinemann 200 pp.
- Gray, J.E. 1865. Notice of a new species of Australian Sperm Whale (Catodon krefftii) in the Sydney Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 439-442
- Guiler, E.R. 1978. Whale strandings in Tasmania since 1945 with notes on some seal reports. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 112: 189-213
- Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259
- Kirkwood, G.P., Allen, K.R. & Bannister, J.L. 1980. An assessment of the Sperm Whale stock subject to Western Australian catching. Reports of the International Whaling Commission Special Issue 2: 147–149
- Leatherwood, S. & Reeves, R.R. 1983. The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins. San Francisco : Sierra Club Books xviii 302 pp.
- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp.
- Schevill, W.E. 1986. The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and a paradigm: the name Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758. Marine Mammal Science 2: 153-157
- Wall, W.B. 1851. History and description of the skeleton of a new sperm whale, lately set up in the Australian Museum ... together with some account of a new genus of sperm whales called Euphysetes. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 1: i-ii 1-66
- Warneke, R.M. 1983. Whale stranding — accident or design. Australian Natural History 21: 43-47
- Weilgart, L. & Whitehead, H. 1997. Group-specific dialects and geographic variation in coda repertoire in South Pacific sperm whales. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 40: 277-285
- Whitehead, H. 2002. Sperm whale, Physeter macrocaphalus. pp. 1165-1172 in Perrin, W.F., Wursig, B. & Thewissen, J.G.M. (eds). Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. San Diego : Academic Press.
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