Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)

James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 349-364 : 354-355

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7154953
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scientific name	Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . 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).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Cetacea
Family	Delphinidae
Genus	Orcinus

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