Name - Orcinus orca

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:15681 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Orcinus orca (Linnaeus 1758)

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Species

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Ancestry testing of 'Old Tom', a killer whale central to mutualistic interactions with human whalers.
• Killer whales, Orcinus orca (Artiodactyla: Delphinidae) in Guatemala: sighting records, photographic match, and interaction with Bryde's whales, Balaenoptera edeni (Artiodactyla: Balaenoptera).
• Opportunistic observation effort and seasonal-spatial fidelity: a qualitative approach, applied to an Orcinus orca first record.
• A deep learning approach to photo-identification demonstrates high performance on two dozen cetacean species.
• Patterns of winter occurrence of three sympatric killer whale populations off eastern Vancouver Island, Canada, based on passive acoustic monitoring.

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