IRMNG - Orcinus Fitzinger, 1860

IRMNG taxon details

Orcinus Fitzinger, 1860

IRMNG_ID

1310753 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1310753)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Delphinidae Gray, 1821

Synonymised names

Gladiator Gray, 1870 · unaccepted (synonym)

Grampus Iredale & Troughton, 1933 · unaccepted (synonym)

Ophesia Gray, 1871 · unaccepted

Ophysia Gray, 1868 · unaccepted (synonym)

Orca Gray, 1846 · unaccepted (preoccupied)

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Species Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Orcinus glacialis Berzin & Vladimirov, 1982 accepted as Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Orcinus nanus Mikhalev, Ivashin, Savusin & Zelenaya, 1981 accepted as Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)

Environment

marine

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Wiss. Naturg. Säugeth., 6
page(s): 204 [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2022). Orcinus Fitzinger, 1860. Accessed at: https://irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1310753 on 2024-04-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

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original description Wiss. Naturg. Säugeth., 6
page(s): 204 [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

basis of record SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 [details]

verified source for family WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

verified source for family Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

current name source Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

current name source WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

extant flag source Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 363, 1-560. [details]

habitat flag source Aphia 2006 [details]

original description (of Ophesia Gray, 1871) Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870
page(s): 773 [details]

original description (of Ophysia Gray, 1868) Syn. Whales Brit. Mus.
page(s): 8 [details]

original description (of Orca Gray, 1846) Voy. "Ereb. Terr."
page(s): 33 [details]

original description (of Gladiator Gray, 1870) Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870
page(s): 71 [details]

From other sources

Descriptive info Includes marine species (Aphia 2006). Marine, extant (?) + fossil: Tertiary to Recent (Sepkoski 2002) [details]

Type species as cited Delphinus orca Linnaeus, 1758. [details]

To WoRMS (from synonym Orca Gray, 1846)
To WoRMS (from synonym Gladiator Gray, 1870)
To WoRMS
To WoRMS (from synonym Ophysia Gray, 1868)
To WoRMS (from synonym Grampus Iredale & Troughton, 1933)