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WoRMS taxon details
Pseudorca crassidens (Owen, 1846) AphiaID: 137104
| Status | | accepted |
Record status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Pseudorca Reinhardt, 1862 |
Synonymised taxa | |
Globicephalus grayi Burmeister, 1867 (synonym)
Orca crassidens Gray, 1846 (synonym)
Orca destructor Cope, 1866 (synonym)
Orca meridionalis Flower, 1865 (synonym)
Phocaena crassidens Owen, 1846 (basionym)
Pseudorca crassidens meridionalis Deraniyagala, 1945 (synonym)
Pseudorca grayi Burmeister, 1872 (synonym)
Pseudorca mediterranea Giglioli, 1882 (synonym)
Pseudorca meridionalis Gray, 1866 (synonym)
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| Sources | |
original description: Owen. (1846). A history of British fossil mammals and birds. page(s): 516, fig. 213 [details]
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: Culik, B. 2000. Convention on Migratory Species: Whales and Dolphins., available online at http://www.wcmc.org.uk/cms/reports/small_cetaceans/data/K_sima/K_sima.htm [details]
additional source: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species
of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]
additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details]
additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details]
additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]
additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]
additional source: Stacey, P. J., S. Leatherwood and R. W. Baird. (1994). Pseudorca crassidens. Mammalian Species 456:1--6. [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: Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
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Vernacular Names | | |
Direct child taxa [show all] | | Subspecies Pseudorca crassidens meridionalis Deraniyagala, 1945 accepted as Pseudorca crassidens (Owen, 1846)
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| Environment | | marine |
| Distribution | | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Comores [details]
Eritrea [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Mozambique [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Subantarctic Waters [details]
Tanzania [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
World Oceans [details]
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| Links | | Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (181 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (90118 nucleotides; 89 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Distribution: Maryland to South America [details]
Distribution: circumtropical to warm temperate [details]
Habitat: oceanic [details]
Holotype: Subfossil skull originally in the Museum of Stanford, later believed to be in the College of Sugeons (Gray, 1846), but finally lost (Hershkovitz, 1966). [details]
IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details]
Type locality: Lincolnshire Fens, near Stanford, England. [details]
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| Images | |
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 50) added on 2008-06-04 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:37:20 |
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Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 53) added on 2008-06-04 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:37:27 |
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False killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) added on 2009-04-23 - author: Charles W. Oliver, NOAA Fisheries ( ) qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 01:20:40 |
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False killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) added on 2009-04-23 - author: Ken Sexton qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 01:22:12 |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137104 |
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| | | Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Pseudorca crassidens (Owen, 1846). 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=137104 on 2013-05-22 |
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