Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Odontoceti > Family Delphinidae > Genus Feresa

Feresa attenuata Gray, 1874

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Feresa*	Gray, 1870	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: dwergmoordvis

Dutch: dwerggriend

English: blackfish; feresa; pygmy killer whale; slender blackfish sources: Jefferson, T.A., S. Leatherwood and M.A. Webber. 1993. Marine mammals of the world. FAO Species Identification Guide. Rome. 312 p.

French: orque pygmée

German: Zwerggrindwal sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Πυγμαία όρκα sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: feresa sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: yume-gondo; ユメゴンドウ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Korean: deul-goyang-i-gorae

Lithuanian: nykštukinė orka sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: orka mała sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: orca ana

Russian: косатка карликовая sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: pritlikava orka sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: ballena asesina pigmea; orca pigmea; orca pymea sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: cüce katil balina sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Карликова косатка; Косатка карликова

Literature

original description	Gray J.E. (1874). Description of the skull of a new species of dolphin (Feresa attenuata). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 14:238-239.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376
additional source	Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. 723--743.
additional source	Perrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp.
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259.
additional source	Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 4.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

Citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Feresa attenuata Gray, 1874. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137095