Relationships towards this taxonGenus group namesFeresa | 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 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 Literatureoriginal 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 | 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 | Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. | 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 | Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 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. | additional source | Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. | additional source | Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. |
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CitationPerrin, W. (2014). Feresa attenuata Gray, 1874. In: Perrin, W.F. (2014) World Cetacea Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137095Image![loading](images/ajax-loader.gif)
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