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Feresa attenuata (pygmy killer whale)
Taxonomy
Feresa attenuata was named by Gray (1874). It is extant. Its type specimen is BMNH 74.11.25.1.
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1827 | Delphinus intermedius Gray p. 396 |
| 1829 | Delphinus intermedius Fischer p. 511 |
| 1846 | Orca intermedia Gray p. 34 |
| 1850 | Orca intermedia Gray p. 96 |
| 1866 | Globiocephalus intermedius Gray p. 318 |
| 1868 | Orca intermedia Gray p. 8 |
| 1870 | Orca (Feresa) intermedia Gray p. 77 |
| 1874 | Feresa attenuata Gray |
| 1904 | Feresa intermedia Palmer p. 285 |
| 1904 | Feresa intermedia Trouessart p. 768 |
| 1956 | Feresa occulta Jones and Packard |
| 1963 | Feresa attenuata Scheffer and Rice p. 8 |
| 1966 | Feresa attenuata Hershkovitz p. 99 |
| 1998 | Feresa attenuata Rice p. 117 |
| 2003 | Feresa attenuata Bolaños and Villaroel-Marin p. 230 |
| 2005 | Feresa attenuata Mead and Brownell p. 728 |
| 2008 | Feresa attenuata Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2013 | Feresa attenuata Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1 |
| 2021 | Feresa attenuata Jefferson p. 20 |
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Feresa attenuata Gray 1874 [pygmy killer whale]
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Invalid names: Delphinus intermedius Gray 1827 [synonym], Feresa occulta Jones and Packard 1956 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available