Orcaella Gray 1866

Orcaella Gray 1866, Cat. Seals Whales Brit. Mus.: 285.

Type Species: Orca (Orcaella) in Gray 1866

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Orcaella brevirostris Owen in Gray 1866

Discussion: We follow Fordyce (1989), Heyning (1989 a), and Lint et al. (1990) in including Orcaella in the Delphinidae, not in the Monodontidae as was recently proposed (Barnes et al., 1985; Kasuya, 1973).