Orcaella Gray 1866

Orcaella Gray, 1866. Cat. Seals Whales Brit. Mus., p. 285. TYPE SPECIES: Orca (Orcaella) brevirostris Gray, 1866. COMMENTS: We follow Fordyce (1989), Heyning (1989a), and Lint et al. (1990) in including Orcaella in the Delphinidae, not in the Monodontidae as was recently proposed (Kasuya, 1973; Barn...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: James G. Mead, Robert L. Brownell, Jr.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Cetacea
Delphinidae
Orcaella
Orca
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7154947
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Summary:Orcaella Gray, 1866. Cat. Seals Whales Brit. Mus., p. 285. TYPE SPECIES: Orca (Orcaella) brevirostris Gray, 1866. COMMENTS: We follow Fordyce (1989), Heyning (1989a), and Lint et al. (1990) in including Orcaella in the Delphinidae, not in the Monodontidae as was recently proposed (Kasuya, 1973; Barnes et al., 1985). Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 354, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970

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