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Feresa attenuata Gray, 1874 
AphiaID: 137095

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Delphinidae (Family) > Feresa (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Feresa Gray, 1870
Synonymised
taxa		  Delphinus intermedius Gray, 1827 (preoccupied)
 Ferasa attenuate Gray, 1875 (Spelling mistake)
 Feresa intermedia Gray, 1871 (preoccupied)
 Feresa occulta Jones & Packard, 1956 (synonym)
 Feresia attenuata Flower, 1884 (synonym)
 Feresia intermedia Flower, 1884 (synonym)
 Grampus intermedius Gray, 1843 (synonym)
 Orca intermedia Gray, 1846 (preoccupied)
Sources  original description: Gray, J. E. (1874). Description of the skull of a new species of dolphin (Feresa attenuata). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 14:238-239. [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: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]

additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details]

additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details]

additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]

additional source: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008., available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details]

additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]

additional source: Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch dwerggriend  [details]
English blackfish  [details]
English feresa  [details]
English pygmy killer whale  [details]
English slender blackfish  [details]
French orque pygmée  [details]
Spanish orca pymea  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Comores [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Mozambique [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
Tanzania [details]
Links To GenBank
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: in all oceans [details]

Habitat: tropical and subtropical, oceanic [details]

Holotype: Skull in British Museum (Natural History), no. 1672a-74.11.25.1. [details]

IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details]

Type locality: Unknown [details]
Images 
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, plaat 52)
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, plaat 52)
added on 2008-06-04 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880)
scan provided by VLIZ - www.wetenschatten.be
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:33:44

Pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata) in the eastern tropical Pacific
Pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata) in the eastern tropical Pacific
added on 2009-04-23 - author: Gary L. Friedrichsen, NOAA Fisheries
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 01:28:43

Pygmy killer whales (Feresa attenuata) in the eastern tropical Pacific
Pygmy killer whales (Feresa attenuata) in the eastern tropical Pacific
added on 2009-04-23 - author: Gary Friedrichsen, NOAA Fisheries
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 17:14:59

Pygmy killer whales (Feresa attenuata) in the eastern tropical Pacific
Pygmy killer whales (Feresa attenuata) in the eastern tropical Pacific
added on 2009-04-23 - author: James M. Cotton, NOAA Fisheries
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 18:16:35
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history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  checked  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2009). Feresa attenuata Gray, 1874. In: Perrin, W.F. World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137095 on 2010-09-02
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