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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CETACEA
--> SUBORDER ODONTOCETI
--> FAMILY Delphinidae
--> GENUS Orcinus
SPECIES Orcinus orca
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 77. | | Common Name: | Killer Whale | | Type Locality: | E North Atlantic ("Oceano Europaeo"). | | Distribution: | Worldwide: all seas and oceans. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (cd). | | Comments: | Reviewed by Heyning and Dahlheim (1988, Mammalian Species, 304). Rice (1998:118) recognized the possibility that O. glacialis represented a separate taxon, but did assign specific or subspecific status to it. Rice (1998:118) considered O. nanus a nomen nudum, which we agree with. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
ater (Cope in Scammon, 1869)
capensis (Gray, 1846)
glacialis Berzin and Vladimirov, 1983
gladiator (Bonnaterre, 1789)
nanus Mikhalev and Ivashin, 1981
rectipinna (Cope in Scammon, 1869)
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