Orcaella Gray 1866

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 723-743 : 731

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11329695
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scientific name	Orcaella Gray 1866
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Orcaella Gray 1866 View in CoL

Orcaella Gray 1866 View in CoL , 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).