Orcinus Fitzinger 1860

• Main Authors: Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T., Koprowski, John L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Cetacea; Delphinidae; Orcinus; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Rasmussen; Reeves; Archer; Foote; Pitman; Antarc*; Killer Whale; Orca; Orcinus orca; Killer whale
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4572023; https://zenodo.org/record/4572023

Genus Orcinus Fitzinger, 1860 Orcinus has generally been treated as a monospecific genus (Mead & Brownell 2005). Although the differences in the morphology, genetics, ecology, and behavior of the three ecotypes are well known -resident (piscivorous specialist), transient (mammalian carnivore) and offshore (probably piscivorous)- their taxonomic status remains unresolved (Reeves et al. 2004). While Hoelzel et al . (1998) supported a concept of a single species based on both nDNA and mtDNA, LeDuc et al . (2008) suggested multiple species at least for populations in the Antarctic as substantial based on morphology and the mitochondrial control region. Morin et al. (2010) suggested promoting the three ecotypes to three species based on complete mitochondrial genome analysis. : Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on page 140, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198 : {"references": ["Mead, J. G. & Brownell Junior, R. L. (2005) Order Cetacea. In: Wilson D. E. & Reeder, D. M. (Eds.), Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3 rd Edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, pp. 723 - 743.", "Reeves, R. R., Perrin, W. F., Taylor, B. L., Baker, C. S. & Mesnick, S. L. (Eds.) (2004) Report of the Workshop on Shortcomings of Cetacean Taxonomy in Relation to Needs of Conservation and Management, April 30 - May 2, 2004, La Jolla, California. US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California, 97 pp.", "Hoelzel, A. R. (1998) Genetic structure of cetacean populations in sympatry, parapatry, and mixed assembles: implications for conservation policy. Journal of Heredity, 89, 451 - 458. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jhered / 89.5.451", "LeDuc, R. G., Robertson, K. M. & Pitman, R. L. (2008) Mitochondrial sequence divergence among Antarctic killer whale ecotypes is consistent with multiple species. Biology Letters, 4, 426 - 429. https: // doi. org / 10.1098 / rsbl. 2008.0168", "Morin, P. A., Archer, F. I., Foote, A. D., Vilstrup, J., Allen, E. E., Wade, P., Durban, J. Parsons, K., Pitman, R., Li, L., Bouffard, P., Nielsen, S. C. A., Rasmussen, M. Willerslev, E. Thomas, M. Gilbert, P. & Harkins, T. (2010) Complete mitochondrial genome phylogeographic analysis of killer whales (Orcinus orca) indicates multiple species. Genome Research, 20, 908 - 916. https: // doi. org / 10.1101 / gr. 102954.109"]}