Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Genus Orcaella Gray, 1866

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Genus Orcaella Gray, 1866

  • Orcaella Gray, J.E. 1866. Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum. London : British Museum vii 402 pp. [285] [erected as subgenus of Orca Gray, 1846].
    Type species:
     Orcaella brevirostris Owen, 1866 by monotypy.
    Compiled from secondary source:
     Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259 [77] (see also for extralimital synonymy)

 

Excluded Taxa

Delphinidae: Orcaella brevirostris (Gray, 1866) [Australian populations now recognised as Orcaella heinsohni Beasley, Robertson & Arnold, 2005].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Tropical Indopacific coastal-estuarine only, also ascending large rivers.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carp., Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Distribution References

  • Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259