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 Pseudorca

Pseudorca crassidens (Owen, 1846)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Phocaena Lesson, 1827

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pseudorca*	Reinhardt, 1862	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: valsmoordvis

Catalan: orca falsa

Danish: halvspækhugger sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: kleine zwaardwalvis; zwarte schijnorka; zwarte zwaardwalvis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: blackfish; bubble; false killer whale sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: faux-orque; pseudorque

German: kleiner Mörder; kleiner Schwertwal; schwarzer Schwertwal; unechter Schwertwal sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Hebrew: עבשן sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Indonesian: paus pemangsa palsu; temu blaa

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

Japanese: kyuri-gondo; oiokui; okigondo kujira; shachi; shachi-modoki; オキゴンドウ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Korean: heuk-beom-gorae

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

Norwegian Bokmål: falsk spekkhogger; halvspekkhogger sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: falsk spekkhoggar; halvspekkhoggar sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Portuguese: falsa orca; galha torta; roaz-negro

Russian: chornaya kasatka; malaya kasatka; или черная косатка; малая sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Sinhala: komadwa

Slovenian: mala orka sources: Davorin Tome

Spanish, Castillian: delfin chato; falsa orca comun; orca bastarda; orca falsa; Orca negra sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: halvspäckhuggare sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Tamil: thimingalam

Thai: plawan phechakhat dam

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

Ukrainian: Косатка мала; мала косатка sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: coegleiddiad

Literature

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	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	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259.
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	Culik, B. (2000). Convention on Migratory Species: Whales and Dolphins.
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	Stacey, P. J., S. Leatherwood and R. W. Baird. (1994). Pseudorca crassidens. Mammalian Species 456:1--6.
additional source	Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 4.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554.
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.
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

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Pseudorca crassidens (Owen, 1846). 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:137104