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    Orcinus is a genus of Delphinidae, the family of carnivorous marine mammals known as dolphins. It includes the largest delphinid species, Orcinus orca...
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    Orcinus paleorca is a fossil species of Orcinus, the genus of killer whales (orca), dated to the Middle Pleistocene. The holotype specimen, a tooth fragment...
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    Orca (redirect from Orcinus orca)
    whose only member is Risso's dolphin. Orcinus orca is the only recognized extant species in the genus Orcinus, and one of many animal species originally...
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    Orcinus meyeri is a fossil species of Orcinus (killer whales) found in the Early Miocene deposits of southern Germany, known from two jaw fragments and...
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    zoologist Édouard Louis Trouessart replaced Orca with Orcinus and described the whale as Orcinus citoniensis. In 1937, Japanese paleontologist Hikoshichiro...
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  • Procambarus orcinus, known as the Woodville Karst cave crayfish, is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It is endemic to the Woodville Karst...
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    and four types have been documented. Two dwarf species, named Orcinus nanus and Orcinus glacialis, were described during the 1980s by Soviet researchers...
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  • Beginning in 2020, a subpopulation of orcas (Orcinus orca) began ramming boats and attacking their rudders in waters off the Iberian Peninsula. The behaviour...
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  • for Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus A synonym of the genus Orcinus Another name for Orcinus orca, the killer whale or orca Another name for the hellbender...
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    David Neiwert (redirect from Orcinus (blog))
    2000. Since then, he has focused on writing books and producing his blog Orcinus, which tends to report on the crossover between the mainstream and the...
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    Hemisyntrachelus cortesii Hemisyntrachelus pisanus Orcinus Orcinus citoniensis † Orcinus meyeri † Orcinus orca Orcinus paleorca † Platalearostrum † Platalearostrum...
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  • Whales (Orcinus orca) in Canada". Fisheries and Oceans Canada. June 1, 2018. Griffin, Rachel (January 1, 2016). "Northern Resident Killer Whale, Orcinus orca...
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    Orcinus orca, the orca or the killer whale...
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    Gray put the false killer whale in the genus Orcinus, which had been known as the killer whale (Orcinus orca). Until 1861, when the first carcasses washed...
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  • Erebus orcina (redirect from Erebus orcinus)
    Wikispecies has information related to Erebus orcina. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Erebus orcinus (Felder & Rogenhofer 1874)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived...
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    Tilikum Tilikum during a 2009 performance at SeaWorld Species Orca (Orcinus orca) Breed Icelandic Sex Male Born c. December 1981 Died 6 January 2017(2017-01-06)...
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    Whale vocalizations are the sounds made by whales to communicate. The word "song" is used in particular to describe the pattern of regular and predictable...
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    sperm whales which appeared in the Miocene, and a member of genus Orcinus (i.e., Orcinus citoniensis) in the Pliocene, is assumed to have contributed to...
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    Visser (Q2656542). Orca (Orcinus orca) in New Zealand waters (Ph.D. Dissertation). Antarctic peninsula killer whales (Orcinus orca) hunt seals and a penguin...
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  • Murray Newman and Pat McGeer. In their discussion, they stated that, while Orcinus orca was well known as a hunter of marine mammals, "the young specimen...
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    Genealogy of Orcinus Orca in British Columbia. UBC Press. ISBN 9780774844307. Douglas, John (2012). "The Resident Orcas Of J-Pod". "Killer whale (Orcinus orca)"...
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  • Shamu Species Orca (Orcinus orca) Sex Female Born Unknown Died August 16, 1971 SeaWorld San Diego Years active 1965–1971 Known for Namesake of the Shamu...
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    Katina Katina with trainer Dawn Brancheau in 1998. Species Orca (Orcinus orca) Breed Icelandic Sex Female Born c. 1975 Years active 1978–present Mate(s)...
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    typically one to four members. It is preyed upon by the killer whale (Orcinus orca) and large sharks such as the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharius)...
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    Irrawaddy dolphin (O. brevirostris) Australian snubfin dolphin (O. heinsohni) Orcinus Orca or killer whale (O. orca) Peponocephala Melon-headed whale (P. electra)...
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    Irrawaddy dolphin (O. brevirostris) Australian snubfin dolphin (O. heinsohni) Orcinus Orca or killer whale (O. orca) Peponocephala Melon-headed whale (P. electra)...
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  • Port Species Orca (Orcinus orca) Sex Male Known for Preying on great white sharks Residence South African coast Named after Left hanging collapsed dorsal...
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  • Imitation of novel conspecific and human speech sounds in the killer whale (Orcinus orca). Proc. R. Soc. B, 285(1871), 20172171. Burton, Bonnie (February 2...
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    Orcinus orca and its range (in blue) In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across all of (or most of) the...
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  • Ferguson, Steven H. (2014). "Inuit Recollections of a 1950s Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) Ice Entrapment in Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada". Aquatic Mammals....
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