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Orcinus orca (orca)
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Delphinus orca was named by Linnaeus (1758) [no type specimen designated
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No type specimen designated (Hershkovitz, 1966).]. It is extant. Its type specimen is 1.
It was recombined as Phocaena orca by De Kay (1842); it was synonymized subjectively with Orca gladiator by Gray (1846) and Gray (1846); it was synonymized subjectively with Orca capensis by Gray (1870); it was recombined as Grampus orca by Sherman (1952); it was recombined as Orcinus orca by Palmer (1899), Trouessart (1904), Thomas (1911), Oliver (1922), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hershkovitz (1966), Barnes (1977), Vidal (1991), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Geisler et al. (2011), Perrin et al. (2013) and Jefferson (2021).
It was recombined as Phocaena orca by De Kay (1842); it was synonymized subjectively with Orca gladiator by Gray (1846) and Gray (1846); it was synonymized subjectively with Orca capensis by Gray (1870); it was recombined as Grampus orca by Sherman (1952); it was recombined as Orcinus orca by Palmer (1899), Trouessart (1904), Thomas (1911), Oliver (1922), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hershkovitz (1966), Barnes (1977), Vidal (1991), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Geisler et al. (2011), Perrin et al. (2013) and Jefferson (2021).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1758 | Delphinus orca Linnaeus p. 77 |
1780 | Physeter microps Fabricius |
1781 | Delphinus serra Borowski |
1789 | Delphinus gladiator Bonnaterre |
1789 | Orca gladiator Bonnaterre |
1804 | Physeter microps Lacépède p. 227 |
1804 | Delphinus orca Lacépède p. 298 |
1804 | Delphinus gladiator Lacépède p. 302 |
1804 | Delphinus duhameli Lacépède p. 314 |
1817 | Delphinus grampus Desmarest |
1829 | Delphinus orca Fischer p. 511 |
1842 | Phocaena orca De Kay p. 135 |
1846 | Orca gladiator Gray p. 33 |
1846 | Orca capensis Gray p. 34 |
1847 | Delphinus orca Nilsson p. 603 |
1850 | Orca gladiator Gray p. 93 |
1850 | Orca capensis Gray p. 95 |
1852 | Delphinus orca Gervais p. 148 |
1858 | Delphinus victorini Grill |
1864 | Orca gladiator Gray p. 244 |
1866 | Orca magellanica Burmeister p. 99 figs. Plate 9, Figure 5 |
1866 | Orca gladiator Gray p. 279 |
1866 | Orca capensis Gray p. 283 |
1866 | Orca schlegelii Lilljeborg |
1866 | Orca eschrichtii Reinhardt |
1868 | Orca (Ophysia) capensis Gray p. 8 |
1868 | Orca gladiator Gray p. 8 |
1868 | Orca magellanica Gray p. 8 |
1869 | Orca ater Scammon and Cope |
1869 | Orca rectipinna Scammon and Cope |
1870 | Orca stenorhyncha Gray |
1870 | Orca (Gladiator) stenorhyncha Gray p. 71 figs. Fig. 1 & 3 |
1870 | Orca capensis Gray p. 71 |
1870 | Orca (Gladiator) latirostris Gray p. 76 |
1870 | Orca (Ophysia) pacifica Gray p. 76 |
1870 | Orca latirostris Gray p. 76 |
1870 | Orca magellanica Gray p. 76 |
1870 | Orca pacifica Gray p. 76 |
1871 | Orca tasmanica Gray |
1871 | Orca africana Gray p. 90 |
1871 | Orca minor Malm |
1876 | Orca antarctica Fischer |
1888 | Orca magellanica Moreno p. 22 |
1889 | Orca magellanica Ameghino p. 886 |
1891 | Orca gladiator Newton p. 76 |
1898 | Orca gladiator Trouessart p. 1048 |
1899 | Orcinus orca Palmer p. 23 |
1904 | Orcinus orca Trouessart p. 771 |
1904 | Orcinus orca capensis Trouessart p. 771 |
1904 | Orcinus orca eschrichti Trouessart p. 771 |
1904 | Orcinus orca magellanica Trouessart p. 771 |
1904 | Orcinus orca pacifica Trouessart p. 771 |
1904 | Orcinus rectipinna Trouessart p. 771 |
1911 | Orcinus orca Thomas p. 158 |
1912 | Orca gladiator Turner p. 109 |
1922 | Orcinus orca Oliver p. 577 |
1952 | Grampus orca Sherman p. 99 |
1963 | Orcinus orca Scheffer and Rice p. 8 |
1966 | Orcinus orca Hershkovitz p. 82 |
1977 | Orcinus orca Barnes |
1981 | Orcinus morzerbruynsus Heintzelman |
1981 | Orcinus nanus Mikhalev and Ivashin |
1982 | Orcinus glacialis Berzin and Vladimirov |
1983 | Orcinus glacialis Berzin and Vladimirov |
1991 | Orcinus orca Vidal p. 5 |
1998 | Orcinus orca Rice p. 119 |
2005 | Orcinus orca Mead and Brownell p. 731 |
2008 | Orcinus orca Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2 |
2011 | Orcinus orca Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1 |
2013 | Orcinus orca Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1 |
2021 | Orcinus orca Jefferson p. 13 |
2021 | Orca stenorhyncha Jefferson p. 15 |
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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]
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