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Orcinus Fitzinger 1860

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Genus Orcinus Fitzinger, 1860

Orcinus has generally been treated as a monospecific genus (Mead & Brownell 2005). Although the differences in the morphology, genetics, ecology, and behavior of the three ecotypes are well known -resident (piscivorous specialist), transient (mammalian carnivore) and offshore (probably piscivorous)- their taxonomic status remains unresolved (Reeves et al. 2004). While Hoelzel et al. (1998) supported a concept of a single species based on both nDNA and mtDNA, LeDuc et al. (2008) suggested multiple species at least for populations in the Antarctic as substantial based on morphology and the mitochondrial control region. Morin et al. (2010) suggested promoting the three ecotypes to three species based on complete mitochondrial genome analysis.

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Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on page 140, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Family
Delphinidae
Genus
Orcinus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cetacea
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Fitzinger
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Orcinus Fitzinger, 1860 sec. Jo, Baccus & Koprowski, 2018

References

  • Mead, J. G. & Brownell Junior, R. L. (2005) Order Cetacea. In: Wilson D. E. & Reeder, D. M. (Eds.), Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3 rd Edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, pp. 723 - 743.
  • Reeves, R. R., Perrin, W. F., Taylor, B. L., Baker, C. S. & Mesnick, S. L. (Eds.) (2004) Report of the Workshop on Shortcomings of Cetacean Taxonomy in Relation to Needs of Conservation and Management, April 30 - May 2, 2004, La Jolla, California. US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California, 97 pp.
  • Hoelzel, A. R. (1998) Genetic structure of cetacean populations in sympatry, parapatry, and mixed assembles: implications for conservation policy. Journal of Heredity, 89, 451 - 458. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jhered / 89.5.451
  • LeDuc, R. G., Robertson, K. M. & Pitman, R. L. (2008) Mitochondrial sequence divergence among Antarctic killer whale ecotypes is consistent with multiple species. Biology Letters, 4, 426 - 429. https: // doi. org / 10.1098 / rsbl. 2008.0168
  • Morin, P. A., Archer, F. I., Foote, A. D., Vilstrup, J., Allen, E. E., Wade, P., Durban, J. Parsons, K., Pitman, R., Li, L., Bouffard, P., Nielsen, S. C. A., Rasmussen, M. Willerslev, E. Thomas, M. Gilbert, P. & Harkins, T. (2010) Complete mitochondrial genome phylogeographic analysis of killer whales (Orcinus orca) indicates multiple species. Genome Research, 20, 908 - 916. https: // doi. org / 10.1101 / gr. 102954.109