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Orcinus (killer whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1846Orca Gray p. 33
1850Orca Gray p. 92
1860Orcinus Fitzinger p. 204
1863Orca Gray p. 201
1864Orca Gray p. 244
1866Orca Gray p. 278
1866Phocaena (Orca) Owen
1867Orca Flower p. 115
1868Orca Gray p. 8
1868Orca (Ophysia) Gray p. 8
1869Orca Scammon and Cope p. 21
1870Orca (Gladiator) Gray p. 71
1870Ophesia Gray p. 773
1870Orca Gray p. 773
1871Orca Gill p. 125
1871Ophysia Gray p. 93
1872Orca Gill p. 95
1887Orca Lydekker p. 80
1889Orca Ameghino p. 886
1890Orca Cope p. 609
1891Orca Newton p. 76
1904Orca (Gladiator) Palmer p. 295
1904Orca Palmer p. 478
1904Orcinus Palmer p. 478
1904Orcinus Trouessart p. 771
1912Orca Turner p. 109
1921Orca Winge p. 36
1925Orca Zittel p. 87
1928Orcinus Kellogg p. 33 figs. Table 1
1928Orcinus Weber p. 389
1945Orcinus Simpson p. 104
1951Orcinus Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 739
1960Orca Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1963Orcinus Scheffer and Rice p. 8
1973Orcinus Kasuya p. 61
1987Orcinus Pilleri p. 109
1988Orcinus Carroll
1988Orcinus Heyning and Dahleim p. 1
1988Orcinus Pilleri p. 24
1991Orcinus Vidal p. 5
1993Orcinus Benton p. 762
1997Orcinus McKenna and Bell p. 384
1998Orcinus Rice p. 117
1999Orcinus LeDuc et al. p. 639 figs. Figure 2
2001Orcinus Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179
2002Orcinus Sepkoski
2004Orcinus Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Fiugre 1
2005Orcinus Bianucci p. 340
2005Orcinus Mead and Brownell p. 731
2008Orcinus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2
2009Orcinus Aguirre-Fernández et al.
2009Orcinus Fordyce and Roberts p. 553
2011Orcinus Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1
2013Orcinus Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1
2014Orcinus Murakami et al. p. 492 figs. Table 1
2022Orcinus Citron et al. p. 169

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
infraorderDelphinida
superfamilyDelphinoidea
familyDelphinidae
genusOrcinus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Orcinus Fitzinger 1860 [killer whale]
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Orcinus citoniensis Capellini 1883
Orcinus meyeri Brandt 1873
Orcinus orca Linnaeus 1758 [orca]
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Invalid names: Delphinus duhameli Lacépède 1804 [synonym], Delphinus gladiator Bonnaterre 1789 [synonym], Delphinus grampus Desmarest 1817 [synonym], Delphinus serra Borowski 1781 [synonym], Delphinus victorini Grill 1858 [synonym], Orca (Gladiator) latirostris Gray 1870 [synonym], Orca (Gladiator) stenorhyncha Gray 1870 [synonym], Orca (Ophysia) pacifica Gray 1870 [synonym], Orca africana Gray 1871 [synonym], Orca antarctica Fischer 1876 [synonym], Orca ater Scammon and Cope 1869 [synonym], Orca capensis Gray 1846 [synonym], Orca eschrichtii Reinhardt 1866 [synonym], Orca gladiator Bonnaterre 1789 [synonym], Orca latirostris Gray 1870 [synonym], Orca magellanica Burmeister 1866 [synonym], Orca minor Malm 1871 [synonym], Orca pacifica Gray 1870 [synonym], Orca rectipinna Scammon and Cope 1869 [synonym], Orca schlegelii Lilljeborg 1866 [synonym], Orca tasmanica Gray 1871 [synonym], Orcinus glacialis Berzin and Vladimirov 1983 [synonym], Orcinus morzerbruynsus Heintzelman 1981 [synonym], Orcinus nanus Mikhalev and Ivashin 1981 [synonym], Physeter microps Fabricius 1780 [synonym]
Orcinus paleorca Matsumoto 1937
Invalid names: Gladiator Gray 1870 [synonym], Ophysia Gray 1868 [synonym], Orca Gray 1846 [replaced]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. E. Gray 1870 (Orca (Gladiator))The beak of the skull tapering and narrow in front, end narrow.