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Orcinus (killer whale)
Taxonomy
Orcinus was named by Fitzinger (1860) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-u R Sepkoski's reference number: 746]. It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Geisler et al. (2011).
It was assigned to Delphininae by Weber (1928), Scheffer and Rice (1963); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Orcini by Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); to Globicephalinae by Vidal (1991), Aguirre-Fernández et al. (2009); to Orcininae by Kasuya (1973), McKenna and Bell (1997), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Buchholtz and Schur (2004), Bianucci (2005), Perrin et al. (2013); and to Delphinidae by Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904), Kellogg (1928), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Gondar (1966), Pilleri (1987), Pilleri (1988), Heyning and Dahleim (1988), Carroll (1988), Benton (1993), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Fordyce and Roberts (2009), Geisler et al. (2011), Murakami et al. (2014), Citron et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Delphininae by Weber (1928), Scheffer and Rice (1963); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Orcini by Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); to Globicephalinae by Vidal (1991), Aguirre-Fernández et al. (2009); to Orcininae by Kasuya (1973), McKenna and Bell (1997), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Buchholtz and Schur (2004), Bianucci (2005), Perrin et al. (2013); and to Delphinidae by Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904), Kellogg (1928), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Gondar (1966), Pilleri (1987), Pilleri (1988), Heyning and Dahleim (1988), Carroll (1988), Benton (1993), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Fordyce and Roberts (2009), Geisler et al. (2011), Murakami et al. (2014), Citron et al. (2022).
Species
O. citoniensis, O. meyeri, O. orca (syn. Physeter microps, Orca capensis, Orca ater, Orca gladiator, Orca rectipinna, Delphinus victorini, Orca magellanica, O. morzerbruynsus, Orca eschrichtii, Orca schlegelii, Orca (Ophysia) pacifica, Orca antarctica, Orca stenorhyncha, Delphinus duhameli, O. glacialis, O. nanus, Orca pacifica, Delphinus grampus, Orca africana, Delphinus gladiator, Orca (Gladiator) latirostris, Orca tasmanica, Orca latirostris, Delphinus serra, Orca minor), O. paleorca