Cetacea taxon details

Delphinus orca Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 148730

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Odontoceti > Delphinidae > Delphinus
Status unaccepted unaccepted (basionym)
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Accepted name  Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Parent Delphinus Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

Environment marine
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (156 publications)
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148730
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Date   action   by
2005-03-29 08:12:19Z  created  Claus, Simon
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  changed  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Delphinus orca Linnaeus, 1758. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148730 on 2013-06-19