Orcinus Fitzinger 1860

• Main Authors: Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T., Koprowski, John L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Cetacea; Delphinidae; Orcinus; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Reeves; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4572024; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.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) 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