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Orcininae
Taxonomy
Orcini was named by Wagner (1846). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Post and Kompanje (2010).
It was reranked as the subfamily Orcinae by Brandt (1873), Brandt (1874); it was considered an invalid subgroup of Globicephalinae by Barnes et al. (1985); it was considered an invalid subgroup of Delphinidae by Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005); it was reranked as the subfamily Orcininae by Fraser and Purves (1960), Kasuya (1973), McKenna and Bell (1997), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Buchholtz and Schur (2004), Bianucci (2005), Bianucci and Landini (2007), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Foekens (2008), Post and Kompanje (2010), Perrin et al. (2013).
It was assigned to Holodontidae by Brandt (1873), Brandt (1874); and to Delphinidae by Wagner (1846), Fraser and Purves (1960), Kasuya (1973), McKenna and Bell (1997), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Buchholtz and Schur (2004), Bianucci (2005), Bianucci and Landini (2007), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Foekens (2008), Post and Kompanje (2010), Perrin et al. (2013).
It was reranked as the subfamily Orcinae by Brandt (1873), Brandt (1874); it was considered an invalid subgroup of Globicephalinae by Barnes et al. (1985); it was considered an invalid subgroup of Delphinidae by Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005); it was reranked as the subfamily Orcininae by Fraser and Purves (1960), Kasuya (1973), McKenna and Bell (1997), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Buchholtz and Schur (2004), Bianucci (2005), Bianucci and Landini (2007), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Foekens (2008), Post and Kompanje (2010), Perrin et al. (2013).
It was assigned to Holodontidae by Brandt (1873), Brandt (1874); and to Delphinidae by Wagner (1846), Fraser and Purves (1960), Kasuya (1973), McKenna and Bell (1997), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Buchholtz and Schur (2004), Bianucci (2005), Bianucci and Landini (2007), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Foekens (2008), Post and Kompanje (2010), Perrin et al. (2013).
Subtaxa
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1846 | Orcini Wagner p. 292 |
| 1868 | Orcadina Gray p. 8 |
| 1870 | Orcadae Gray p. 773 |
| 1871 | Orcadae Gray p. 85 |
| 1873 | Orcinae Brandt p. 227 |
| 1874 | Orcinae Brandt p. 47 |
| 1911 | Tursiops osennae Simonelli p. 13 figs. Plate 1 |
| 1960 | Orcininae Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26 |
| 1973 | Orcininae Kasuya p. 61 |
| 1985 | Tursiops osennae Pilleri p. 15 |
| 1987 | Tursiops osennae Pilleri p. 103 |
| 1990 | Tursiops osennae Barnes pp. 14-15 |
| 1996 | Tursiops osennae Bianucci p. 94 |
| 1997 | Orcininae McKenna and Bell p. 384 |
| 1999 | Orcininae LeDuc et al. p. 639 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2001 | Orcininae Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
| 2004 | Orcininae Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2005 | Orcininae Bianucci p. 331 |
| 2007 | Orcininae Bianucci and Landini p. 45 figs. Table 2.1 |
| 2008 | Orcininae Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 4.3 |
| 2008 | Orcininae Foekens p. 7 figs. Table 1 |
| 2010 | Orcininae Post and Kompanje p. 2 |
| 2013 | Orcininae Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1 |
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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.
Subfm. Orcininae Wagner 1846
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G. †Hemisyntrachelus Brandt 1873
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†Hemisyntrachelus cortesii Fischer 1829
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Invalid names: Hemisyntrachelus pisanus Bianucci 1996 [synonym], Tursiops capellinii Del Prato 1898 [synonym]
†Hemisyntrachelus oligodon Pilleri and Siber 1989
Invalid names: Tursiops cortesii pedemontana Sacco 1891 [nomen nudum]
Invalid names: Orcadae Gray 1870 [synonym], Orcadina Gray 1868 [synonym], Tursiops osennae Simonelli 1911 [invalid subgroup]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Collections (27 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Miocene - Pliocene | Italy | Tursiops cortesii (53930) | |
| Messinian | Peru | Tursiops oligodon (13079) | |
| Zanclean | Italy | Hemisyntrachelus cortesii (55759) Hemisyntrachelus sp. (84944) Tursiops cortesii (54157 85022) | |
| Zanclean | Italy (Tuscany) | Tursiops osennae (48655) | |
| Zanclean | Chile | Hemisyntrachelus sp. (69731) | |
| Zanclean | Italy (Piacenza) | Delphinus cortesii, Tursiops capellinii (67108) | |
| Zanclean | Netherlands (Noord-Brabant) | Hemisyntrachelus sp. (89447) | |
| Pliocene | Italy (Tuscany) | Tursiops cortesii (48645) | |
| Pliocene | Italy | Delphinus cortesii (58418) Hemisyntrachelus cortesii (52066) Tursiops cortesii (48654 49688 76977) | |
| Piacenzian | Italy (Piacenza) | Hemisyntrachelus sp., Hemisyntrachelus cortesii, Tursiops capellinii (55542) | |
| Piacenzian | Italy (Tuscany) | Hemisyntrachelus sp. (71158) Hemisyntrachelus sp., Tursiops cortesii (48652) | |
| Piacenzian | Italy | Hemisyntrachelus sp. (64056) Hemisyntrachelus sp., Delphinus cortesii (47428) Tursiops cortesii (71101) | |
| Piacenzian - Gelasian | Netherlands | Hemisyntrachelus sp. (66067 66068) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene | Netherlands | Hemisyntrachelus sp. (107396) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene | Netherlands (Zeeland) | Hemisyntrachelus sp. (107397) | |
| Pleistocene | Netherlands | Hemisyntrachelus sp. (65174) |