Orca capensis Gray, 1846

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

SPECIES

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Chordata

class

Mammalia

order

Cetacea

family

Delphinidae

genus

Orcinus

species

Orcinus orca

Name

Homonyms

Orca capensis Gray, 1846

Orca capensis Van Beneden & Gervais, 1873

Bibliographic References

1. Hershkovitz, Philip, 1966: Catalog of Living Whales. United States National Museum Bulletin, no. 246. viii + 259.
2. Heyning, John E., and Marilyn E. Dahlheim, 1988: Orcinus orca. Mammalian Species, no. 304. 1-9.
3. Mead, James G., and Robert L. Brownell, Jr. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Order Cetacea. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 1. 723-743.