Orcinus orca

• Main Authors: Wilson, Don E., Reeder, DeeAnn
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Cetacea; Delphinidae; Orcinus; Orcinus orca; Killer Whale; North Atlantic; Orca; Killer whale
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11329701; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/A5EB56E7A935B961EC95D7FB465823D4

Orcinus orca (Linnaeus 1758) [Delphinus] orca Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 77. Type Locality: E North Atlantic ("Oceano Europaeo"). Vernacular Names: Killer Whale. Synonyms: Orcinus ater (Cope in Scammon 1869); Orcinus capensis (Gray 1846); Orcinus glacialis Berzin and Vladimirov 1983; Orcinus gladiator (Bonnaterre 1789); Orcinus nanus Mikhalev and Ivashin 1981; Orcinus rectipinna (Cope in Scammon 1869). Distribution: Worldwide: all seas and oceans. Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (cd). Discussion: 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. Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, pp. 723-743 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 731, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519