Pseudorca crassidens

(R. Owen, 1846)

False Killer Whale

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Artiodactyla
Suborder : Whippomorpha
Infraorder : Cetacea
Parvorder : Odontoceti
Superfamily : Delphinoidea
Family : Delphinidae
Subfamily : Globicephalinae
Genus : Pseudorca

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Owen, R. 1846. A History of British Fossil Mammals, and Birds. John van Voorst, London, 558 pp.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56885518

Original name as described

Phocaena crassidens

Other common names

False Pilot Whale

Type material

lost (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"in the great fen of Lincolnshire beneath the turf [subfossil], in the neighborhood of the ancient town of Stamford," England, UK.

Biogeographic realm

Marine

Country distribution

American Samoa · Anguilla · Antigua and Barbuda · Argentina · Aruba · Australia · Bahamas · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belize · Benin · Bermuda · Bonaire · Sint Eustatius · Saba · Brazil · Brunei · Cape Verde · Cambodia · Cameroon · Canada · Cayman Islands · Chile · China · Cocos Islands · Colombia · Republic of the Congo · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Cook Islands · Costa Rica · Croatia · Cuba · Curaçao · Cote d'Ivoire · Denmark · Djibouti · Dominica · Dominican Republic · Ecuador · Egypt · El Salvador · Equatorial Guinea · Eritrea · Fiji · France · French Guiana · French Polynesia · Gabon · Gambia · Germany · Ghana · Greece · Grenada · Guadeloupe · Guam · Guatemala · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Guyana · Haiti · Honduras · India · Indonesia · Iran · Ireland · Israel · Italy · Jamaica · Japan · Jordan · Kenya · Kiribati · South Korea · Kuwait · Liberia · Madagascar · Malaysia · Maldives · Malta · Marshall Islands · Martinique · Mauritania · Mayotte · Mexico · Micronesia · Morocco · Mozambique · Myanmar · Namibia · Netherlands · New Caledonia · New Zealand · Nicaragua · Nigeria · Niue · Northern Marianas · Norway · Oman · Pakistan · Palau · Panama · Papua New Guinea · Peru · Philippines · Pitcairn · Portugal · Puerto Rico · Qatar · Saint Helena · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Sint Maarten · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Samoa · São Tomé and Príncipe · Saudi Arabia · Senegal · Seychelles · Sierra Leone · Singapore · Solomon Islands · Somalia · South Africa · Spain · Sri Lanka · Sudan · Suriname · Syria · Taiwan · Tanzania · Thailand · East Timor · Togo · Tokelau · Tonga · Trinidad and Tobago · Turkmenistan · Turks and Caicos Islands · United Arab Emirates · United Kingdom · United States? · Uruguay · Vanuatu · Venezuela · Vietnam · British Virgin Islands · United States Virgin Islands · Wallis and Futuna · Yemen · Angola? · Belgium? · Bosnia and Herzegovina? · Comoros? · Cyprus? · Iraq? · North Korea? · Lebanon? · Libya? · Mauritius? · Montenegro? · Montserrat? · Nauru? · Norfolk Island? · Palestine? · Poland? · Russia? · Réunion? · Slovenia? · Sweden? · Tunisia? · Tuvalu?

Subregion distribution

USA(HI,FL?)

IUCN Red List status

Near Threatened

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006425

Country distribution map

The map below provides a general overview. Most species inhabit only specific regions within countries. Known distribution is shown in green and predicted distribution is in yellow. Hover over the highlighted regions to see the country name.

Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Orca (Pseudorca?) meridionalis

(W. H. Flower, 1865)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

meridionalis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1946.8.9.3

Type kind

syntypes

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/ce0e2ec9-6eee-4600-8c37-49026070b359

Authority page

425

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28500750

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

Mead & Brownell (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9684)

Phocaena crassidens

(R. Owen, 1846)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

crassidens

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

lost (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

516

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56885518

Authority publication

London

Globicephalus Grayi

(Burmeister, 1867)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

grayi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MACN (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

308

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14522446

Authority publication

Anales del Museo Público de Buenos Aires

Pseudorca? mediterranea

Giglioli, 1882

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

mediterranea

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MF 6063

Type kind

lectotype

Authority page

289

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9734360

Authority publication

Zoologischer Anzeiger

Orca destructor

(Cope, 1866)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

destructor

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:A3679

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3631d4194-4613-451e-8ceb-d168713768f0

Authority page

293

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1861753

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

Name usages

Mead & Brownell (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9684)

Pseudorca crassidens

Lahille, 1899

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

crassidens

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

201

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35147067

Authority publication

Primera Reunión del Congreso Científico Latino Americano

Name usages

  1. Lahille (1899:201, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35147067) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37834)
  2. Corbet & Hill (1980:110) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  3. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:295) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  4. Mead & Brownell (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9684)
  5. Mittermeier & Wilson (2014:520) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67175)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #18596) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #18596) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006425) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  9. Schmidly, Bradley, Yancey & Bradley (2024:59) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67259)
  10. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/18596/145357488) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Delphinus dalippus

(Rafinesque, 1814)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

dalippus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

14

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5282850

Authority publication

Palermo

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