Orcinus meyeri Brandt 1873 (killer whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Alternative combination: Orca meyeri

Full reference: J. F. Brandt. 1873. Untersuchungen über die fossilen und subfossilen cetaceen Europa's. Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Series 7 20(1):1-372

Belongs to Orcinus according to E. L. Trouessart 1904

See also Brandt 1873 and Studer 1898

Sister taxa: Orcinus citoniensis, Orcinus orca, Orcinus paleorca

Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Orcinus meyeri in the database

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