Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Alternative spellings: Orcaellidae, Orcellidae
Full reference: M. Nishiwaki. 1963. Taxonomical consideration on genera of Delphinidae. Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Instititute 17:93-104
Parent taxon: Delphinidae according to G. Bianucci and W. Landini 2007
See also Barnes 1984, Barnes et al. 1985, Fordyce and Barnes 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Kasuya 1973, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Rice 1998
Sister taxa: Arimidelphis, Australodelphis, Catodontina, Delphininae, Delphinus malayanus, Eodelphinus, Globicephalinae, Hemisyntrachelus, Lagenorhynchina, Lagenorhynchus, Lissodelphininae, Monoceratina, Norisdelphis, Orcina, Orcininae, Orcinus, Pliodelphis, Sotalia, Steninae, Steno, Steno cudmorei, Stenonina, Stenoninae, Trispondylus, Tursiops miocaenus
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Orcaellinae in the database