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Orcinus orca (orca)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Taxonomy
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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).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Delphinus orca Linnaeus p. 77
1780Physeter microps Fabricius
1781Delphinus serra Borowski
1789Delphinus gladiator Bonnaterre
1789Orca gladiator Bonnaterre
1804Physeter microps Lacépède p. 227
1804Delphinus orca Lacépède p. 298
1804Delphinus gladiator Lacépède p. 302
1804Delphinus duhameli Lacépède p. 314
1817Delphinus grampus Desmarest
1829Delphinus orca Fischer p. 511
1842Phocaena orca De Kay p. 135
1846Orca gladiator Gray p. 33
1846Orca capensis Gray p. 34
1847Delphinus orca Nilsson p. 603
1850Orca gladiator Gray p. 93
1850Orca capensis Gray p. 95
1852Delphinus orca Gervais p. 148
1858Delphinus victorini Grill
1864Orca gladiator Gray p. 244
1866Orca magellanica Burmeister p. 99 figs. Plate 9, Figure 5
1866Orca gladiator Gray p. 279
1866Orca capensis Gray p. 283
1866Orca schlegelii Lilljeborg
1866Orca eschrichtii Reinhardt
1868Orca (Ophysia) capensis Gray p. 8
1868Orca gladiator Gray p. 8
1868Orca magellanica Gray p. 8
1869Orca ater Scammon and Cope
1869Orca rectipinna Scammon and Cope
1870Orca stenorhyncha Gray
1870Orca (Gladiator) stenorhyncha Gray p. 71 figs. Fig. 1 & 3
1870Orca capensis Gray p. 71
1870Orca (Gladiator) latirostris Gray p. 76
1870Orca (Ophysia) pacifica Gray p. 76
1870Orca latirostris Gray p. 76
1870Orca magellanica Gray p. 76
1870Orca pacifica Gray p. 76
1871Orca tasmanica Gray
1871Orca africana Gray p. 90
1871Orca minor Malm
1876Orca antarctica Fischer
1888Orca magellanica Moreno p. 22
1889Orca magellanica Ameghino p. 886
1891Orca gladiator Newton p. 76
1898Orca gladiator Trouessart p. 1048
1899Orcinus orca Palmer p. 23
1904Orcinus orca Trouessart p. 771
1904Orcinus orca capensis Trouessart p. 771
1904Orcinus orca eschrichti Trouessart p. 771
1904Orcinus orca magellanica Trouessart p. 771
1904Orcinus orca pacifica Trouessart p. 771
1904Orcinus rectipinna Trouessart p. 771
1911Orcinus orca Thomas p. 158
1912Orca gladiator Turner p. 109
1922Orcinus orca Oliver p. 577
1952Grampus orca Sherman p. 99
1963Orcinus orca Scheffer and Rice p. 8
1966Orcinus orca Hershkovitz p. 82
1977Orcinus orca Barnes
1981Orcinus morzerbruynsus Heintzelman
1981Orcinus nanus Mikhalev and Ivashin
1982Orcinus glacialis Berzin and Vladimirov
1983Orcinus glacialis Berzin and Vladimirov
1991Orcinus orca Vidal p. 5
1998Orcinus orca Rice p. 119
2005Orcinus orca Mead and Brownell p. 731
2008Orcinus orca Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2
2011Orcinus orca Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1
2013Orcinus orca Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1
2021Orcinus orca Jefferson p. 13
2021Orca stenorhyncha Jefferson p. 15

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
infraorderDelphinida
superfamilyDelphinoidea
familyDelphinidae
genusOrcinus
speciesorca()

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.

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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