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Orcinus orca Linnaeus 



[Delphinus] orca Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat, ed. 10, 1 : 77. — Thomas, 1911, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1911 : 158 [type history]. 



Delphinus Orca, Lacepede, 1804, Histoire naturelle des cetacees, pp. 

 xlii, 298, pi. 15, fig. 1 (animal), pi. 16 (skull) [N. Atlantic: polar 

 region ; Davis Strait ; England (mouth of Thames River) ; Pacific : 

 Antarctic Ocean; Gulf of Panama; characters; life history]. 



Orcinus orca, Palmer, 1899, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 13: 23-24 [type 

 of Orcinus Fitzinger]. — Elliot, 1904, Field Columbian Mus., Zool. Ser., 

 4(1): 50, fig. xviii (animal), pi. 22 (skull) [characters; distribution; 

 synonymy]. — Trouessart, 1904, Suppl. Cat. Mamm., p. 771 [classifica- 

 tion]. — Lahille, 1905, Rev. Jardin Zool. Buenos Aires, 1905: 64 

 [characters]. — Lillie, 1915, British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 

 1910, Zool., 1(3): 119 [Antarctica: Ross Sea; 34° S.-78° 38' S.; sexual 

 dimorphism; variation in shape of dorsal fin]. — Oliver, 1922, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1922: 577 [characters].— Weber, 1923, Die 

 Cetaceen der Siboga-Expedition, Siboga Expeditie, 58: 20 [S. Pacific: 

 Indonesia]. — Fraser, in Norman and Fraser, 1938, Giant fishes, whales 

 and dolphins, p. 289, fig. 74 (animal) [characters; habits]. — Cabrera 

 and Yepes, 1940, Mamiferos sudamericanos, p. 299, pi. 73 (animal) 

 [characters; habits]. — Olrog, 1950, Acta Zool. Lilloana, 9: 509 [S. 

 Atlantic: Chile (Cape Horn; Grevy Island)]. — Hamilton, 1952, 

 Comun. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, 4(66): 4 [S. Atlantic: 

 Falklands]. — Sapin-Jaloustre, 1953, Mammalia, 17: 251, fig. 20 

 (animal) [sighting characters]. — Taylor, 1957, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 129: 325, pis. 1, 6, 7 (animals) [Antarctica: Graham Land; observed 

 in a small sea-ice pool]. — Mann, 1957, Invest. Zool. Chilenas, 4: 107 

 [S. Pacific: Chile; key characters]. — Fraser and Purves, 1960, Bull. 

 Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Zool., 7: 50 et seq., pi. 31 (skull) [auditory 

 system]. — Backus, 1961, Journ. Mammal., 42: 418, pi. (skull) [N. 

 Atlantic: Bahamas (Great Abaco Island); stranding records]. — Norris 

 and Prescott, 1961, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 63: 301, 330 [N. 

 Pacific: Bering Sea to Baja California; behavior; morphology; loco- 

 motion; feeding. — Leveque, 1963, Mammalia, 27(4): 609 [S. Pacific: 

 Ecuador (Galapagos)]. 



0[rcinus] orca, Schneider, 1946, Bol. Soc. Biol. Concepcion, 21: 80 [S. 

 Pacific: Chile (Concepcion)]. — Yanez, 1948, Rev. Biol. Marina, 

 Valparaiso, 1: 115 [S. Pacific: Chile]. 



[Grampus] orca, Iredale and Troughton, 1933, Rec. Australian Mus., 19(1) : 

 30 ["identification" of the nomen nudum Delphinus Grampus "Linn.", 

 Gray, 1828]. 



Grampus orca, Kellogg, 1940, Nat. Geogr. Mag., 77(1) : 70, pi. 13 (animal) 

 [characters; habits; distribution]. — Miller and Kellogg, 1955, Bull. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus., 205: 661 [listed; distribution in North American 



