WoRMS taxon details
Orcaella brevirostris (Owen in Gray, 1866)
AphiaID: 148732
AphiaID: 148732
| 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) > Orcaella (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Orcaella Gray, 1866 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Orca (Orcaella) brevirostris Owen in Gray, 1866 (basionym) Orcaella brevirostris brevirostris Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 (synonym) Orcaella brevirostris fluminalis Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 (synonym) Orcaella fluminalis Gray, 1871 (synonym) Orcella brevirostris Anderson, 1871 (synonym) Orcella fluminalis Anderson, 1871 (synonym) Phocaena (Orca) brevirostris Owen, 1866 (synonym) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Gray J.E. (1866). Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum. Trustees of the British Museum, London. page(s): 285 [details] basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 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] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Orcaella brevirostris brevirostris Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 accepted as Orcaella brevirostris (Owen in Gray, 1866) Subspecies Orcaella brevirostris fluminalis Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 accepted as Orcaella brevirostris (Owen in Gray, 1866) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, brackish, fresh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Central Indo-Pacific [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (54 nucleotides; 53 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Habitat: in coastal, brackish and fresh waters, tropical and subtropical [details] Holotype: Skull in British Museum (Natural History), London; no. 1454a, collected by Sir Walter Elliot. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Vulnerable (VU) [details] Type locality: Harbor of Vizagapatam, Madras, Bay of Bengal, India. [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148732 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Orcaella brevirostris. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148732 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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