Order Cetacea
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1
723
743
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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
).