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.4572024; https://zenodo.org/record/4572024

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) an...