CETACEA: DELPHINIDAE 661 



Genus GRAMPUS Gray 



1828. Grampus Gray, Spicilegia zoologica, . . . , pt. 1, p. 2. (Type by tau- 

 tonomy, and subsequent designation, Gray, Zool. Journ., vol. 4, p. 497, 1829, 

 Delphinus grampus "Linn." [= Hunter, 1787] = Delphinus orca Linnaeus. 

 For use of Grampus in place of Orcinus see Iredale and Troughton, Rec. Aus- 

 tralian Mus., vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 28-36, Aug. 2, 1933. See also, Ellerman 

 and Morrison-Scott, Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 

 1946, Publ. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) , p. 739, Nov. 19, 1951.) 



1846. Orca Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, vol. 17, p. 84, February 1846. 

 (Type by tautonomy, Delphinus orca Linnaeus. Not Orca Wagler, 1830.) 



1860. Orcinus Fitzinger, Wissenschaftlich-populiire Naturgeschichte der Siiu- 

 gethiere, vol. 6, p. 204. (Type, Delphinus orca Linnaeus.) 



Grampus orca (Linnaeus) * (Atlantic killer whale) 



1758. [Delphinus] orca Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 77. 



1860. Orcinus orca Fitzinger, Wissenschaftlich-populare Naturgeschichte der 

 Saugethiere . . . , vol. 6, p. 204. 



1884. Orca gladiator True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), p. 

 589, Nov. 29, 1884. 



1933. Grampus orca Iredale and Troughton, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 19, No. 

 1, p. 35, Aug. 2, 1933. 



Type Locality. — European Seas. Range.— In western North Atlantic recorded 

 from coast of Greenland (Brown, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, pt. 3, p. 549, 

 March 1869) , Eclipse Sound north of Baffin Island, Davis Strait, and Baffin Bay 

 (Freuchen, in Degerb0l and Freuchen, Mammals, in Rep. Fifth Thule Exped. 

 1921-24, Danish Exped. to Arctic North America, vol. 2, Nos. 4-5, pt. 2, pp. 

 262-266, 1935) south to New Jersey (Ulmer, Not. Naturae, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil- 

 adelphia, No. 83, p. 1, Aug. 11, 1941). 

 Grampus rectipinna (Cope) * (Pacific killer whale) 



1869. Orca rectipinna Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 21, p. 22. 



1869. Orca ater Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 21, p. 22 (North- 

 west coasts from Oregon to Aleutian Islands.) 



1875. Orca pacifica Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1875, pt. 1, p. 76, June 2, 

 1875. (North Pacific.) 



1898. [Orca] rectispina Trouessart, Catalogus Mammalium . . . , fasc. 5, p. 

 1050. (Accidental renaming of rectipinna.) 



1942. Grampus rectipinna Scheffer, Murrelet, vol. 23, No. 2, p. 44, Aug. 14, 

 1942. 



Type Locality. — Coast of California. Range. — In eastern North Pacific re- 

 corded from St. Matthew Islands (Hanna, Journ. Mamm., vol. 1, No. 3, p. 120, 

 June 19, 1920) and Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea (Preble, North Amer. Fauna 

 No. 46, p. 117, June 27, 1923), Queen Charlotte Islands and Vancouver Island 

 (Carl, Rep. Prov. Mus. Nat. Hist., British Columbia, 1945, pp. B21-B28, 1946), 

 off coast of Washington (Scheffer and Slipp, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 

 274-287, March 1948) south to coast of California (Grinnell, Univ. California 

 Publ. Zool., vol. 40, No. 2, p. 215, Sept. 26, 1933) and Baja California (Scam- 

 mon, The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America . . . , 

 p. 90, 1874). 



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