Orcinus orca (Linnaeus 1758)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 723-743 : 731

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[Delphinus] orca Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 77 View Cited Treatment .

Type Locality: E North Atlantic ("Oceano Europaeo").

Vernacular Names: Killer Whale.

Synonyms: Orcinus ater (Cope in Scammon 1869) ; Orcinus capensis ( Gray 1846) ; Orcinus glacialis Berzin and Vladimirov 1983 ; Orcinus gladiator (Bonnaterre 1789) ; Orcinus nanus Mikhalev and Ivashin 1981 ; Orcinus rectipinna (Cope in Scammon 1869) .

Distribution: Worldwide: all seas and oceans.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).

Discussion: Reviewed by Heyning and Dahlheim (1988, Mammalian Species, 304). Rice (1998:118) recognized the possibility that O. glacialis represented a separate taxon, but did assign specific or subspecific status to it. Rice (1998:118) considered O. nanus a nomen nudum, which we agree with.