Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:77.

TYPE LOCALITY: E North Atlantic ("Oceano Europaeo") .

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: all seas and oceans.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: ater, capensis, gladiator, rectipinna .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Heyning and Dahlheim (1988, Mammalian Species, 304).