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Type : Subfossil skull, originally in the Museum of Stanford, later believed 

 to be in the College of Surgeons (Gray, 1846, Zoology . . . Erebus and 

 Terror, 1: 34), then in the Cambridge University Museum (Gray, 1866, 

 Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 298), finally said to be lost (Flower, 

 1884, Cat. Osteol. Spec. Roy. Coll. Surgeons London, 2(Mammalia): 573). 



Type locality: Lincolnshire Fens, near Stanford, England. 



Distribution : The same as for the genus ; in South American waters, the 

 Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela (Isla Aves, 12° N., 67°30 / W.), 

 the South Pacific (Paita, Peru, 5° S.), and the South Atlantic (off Buenos 

 Aires, Argentina, 36° S.). 



Genus ORCINUS Fitzinger 



[?] Megalodontia Brookes, 1828, Cat. Joshua Brookes Mus., p. 40 

 [work not seen; cf. Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 279, 

 where generic name only is cited]. 



Orca Gray, 1846, Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus and Terror, 

 1 (Mammalia): 33 [included species: 0. gladiator Gray (—Delphinus 

 gladiator Bonna.tevre= Delphinus orca Linnaeus; hence, type by virtual 

 tautonomy), 0. crassidens Owen {=Pseudorca crassidens Owen), 0. 

 capensis Gray ( = D. orca Linnaeus), 0. intermedia (=Feresa intermedia 

 Gray); generic name preoccupied by Orca Wagler, 1830 (=Hyperoodon 

 Lacepede)].— Flower, 1884, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1883: 507 

 [characters]. — Winge, 1942, Interrelat. Mamm. Gen., 3: 252 [charac- 

 ters; classification]. 



Orcinus Fitzinger, 1860, Wissentchaftlich-populare Naturgeschichte der 

 Saugethiere, 6: 204. — Palmer, 1899, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 13: 23-24 [available name for Orca Gray, 1846, preoccupied]. — 

 Kellogg, 1928, Quart. Rev. Biol., 3: 33 et seq. [history; relationship]. — 

 Fraser and Purves, 1960, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Zool., 7: 51 

 et seq., fig. 26 (table) [auditory system; classification]. 



Ophysia Gray, 1868, Synopsis whales and dolphins, p. 8 [type species: 

 Orca capensis Gray (=Delphinus orca Linnaeus), by monotypy]; 1870, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870: 76 [included species: Orca pacifica 

 Gray (=Delphinus orca Linnaeus)]. 



Gladiator Gray, 1870, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870: 71 [type species 

 by monotypy: Orca stenorhyncha (=Orca gladiator Gray = Delphinus orca 

 Linnaeus) ; name preoccupied by Gladiator Gistl, a genus of Coleoptera]. 



Grampus Iredale and Troughton (not Gray), 1933, Rec. Australian Mus., 

 19(1): 28-36 [type species: "Delphinus grampus ' Linn. '= Hunter" 

 (= Delphinus grampus ~B\a'mville= Delphinus orca Linnaeus), by monotypy]. 



Type species: Orcinus orca (= Delphinus orca Linnaeus), by monotypy. 

 Distribution : All seas from Arctic to Antarctic. 



