Register of Antarctic Species (RAS) - Orcinus Fitzinger, 1860

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RAS taxon details

Orcinus Fitzinger, 1860

AphiaID

137021 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137021)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Delphinidae Gray, 1821

Synonymised names

Orca Gray, 1846 · unaccepted (preoccupied)

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Species Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Orcinus nanus Mikhalev, Ivashin, Savusin & Zelenaya, 1981 accepted as Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Fitzinger, L. J. (1860). Wissenschaftlich-populäre Naturgeschichte der Säugethiere in ihren sämmtlichen Hauptformen : nebst einer Einleitung in die Naturgeschichte uberhaupt und in die Lehre von den Thieren insbesondere. Wien :Aus der Kaiserlich-königlichen hof- und staatsdrucherei. 6: 364pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15565726
page(s): 204 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Orcinus Fitzinger, 1860. Accessed through: RAS (Eds.) (2025) Register of Antarctic Species at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137021 on 2025-09-12

Regional species database citation

RAS (Eds.) (2025). Register of Antarctic Species. Orcinus Fitzinger, 1860. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137021 on 2025-09-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2008-08-20 11:25:36Z

checked

Perrin, William

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original description Fitzinger, L. J. (1860). Wissenschaftlich-populäre Naturgeschichte der Säugethiere in ihren sämmtlichen Hauptformen : nebst einer Einleitung in die Naturgeschichte uberhaupt und in die Lehre von den Thieren insbesondere. Wien :Aus der Kaiserlich-königlichen hof- und staatsdrucherei. 6: 364pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15565726
page(s): 204 [details]

basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554. [details]

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Orcinus)
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To ITIS