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Orcinus Fitzinger, 1860 
AphiaID: 137021

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Delphinidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Delphinidae Gray, 1821
Synonymised
taxa
  Gladiator Gray, 1870 (synonym)
Grampus Iredale & Troughton, 1933 (synonym)
Ophysia Gray, 1868 (synonym)
Orca Gray, 1846 (preoccupied)
Sources  basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

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 Species Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)

Species Orcinus glacialis Berzin & Vladimirov, 1982 accepted as Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Orcinus nanus Mikhalev, Ivashin, Savusin & Zelenaya, 1981 accepted as Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137021
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  checked  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Orcinus Fitzinger, 1860. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137021 on 2013-05-21
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