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Feresa (pygmy killer whale)
Taxonomy
Orca (Feresa) was named by Gray (1870). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Weber (1928).
It was misspelled as Feresia by Weber (1928); it was reranked as Feresa by Gray (1870), Gray (1871), Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912), Fraser and Purves (1960), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kasuya (1973), de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Rice (1998), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Buchholtz and Schur (2004), Mead and Brownell (2005), Bianucci (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Aguirre-Fernández et al. (2009), Perrin et al. (2013), Murakami et al. (2014), Marx et al. (2016), Bianucci et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Orca by Gray (1870); to Lagenorhynchina by Gray (1871); to Orcini by Fraser and Purves (1960); to Delphininae by Weber (1928), Scheffer and Rice (1963); to Orcininae by Buchholtz and Schur (2004), Bianucci (2005); to Delphinidae by Gray (1870), Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Murakami et al. (2014); and to Globicephalinae by Kasuya (1973), de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Aguirre-Fernández et al. (2009), Perrin et al. (2013), Marx et al. (2016), Bianucci et al. (2022).
It was misspelled as Feresia by Weber (1928); it was reranked as Feresa by Gray (1870), Gray (1871), Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912), Fraser and Purves (1960), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kasuya (1973), de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Rice (1998), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Buchholtz and Schur (2004), Mead and Brownell (2005), Bianucci (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Aguirre-Fernández et al. (2009), Perrin et al. (2013), Murakami et al. (2014), Marx et al. (2016), Bianucci et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Orca by Gray (1870); to Lagenorhynchina by Gray (1871); to Orcini by Fraser and Purves (1960); to Delphininae by Weber (1928), Scheffer and Rice (1963); to Orcininae by Buchholtz and Schur (2004), Bianucci (2005); to Delphinidae by Gray (1870), Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Murakami et al. (2014); and to Globicephalinae by Kasuya (1973), de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Aguirre-Fernández et al. (2009), Perrin et al. (2013), Marx et al. (2016), Bianucci et al. (2022).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1870 | Orca (Feresa) Gray |
| 1870 | Feresa Gray p. 772 |
| 1871 | Feresa Gray p. 78 |
| 1904 | Feresa Palmer p. 285 |
| 1904 | Feresa Trouessart p. 768 |
| 1912 | Feresa Turner p. 139 |
| 1928 | Feresia Weber p. 389 |
| 1960 | Feresa Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. FIgure 26 |
| 1963 | Feresa Scheffer and Rice p. 8 |
| 1973 | Feresa Kasuya p. 61 |
| 1988 | Feresa de Muizon p. 162 |
| 1997 | Feresa McKenna and Bell p. 386 |
| 1998 | Feresa Rice p. 117 |
| 1999 | Feresa LeDuc et al. p. 639 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2001 | Feresa Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
| 2004 | Feresa Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2005 | Feresa Bianucci p. 340 fig. 7 |
| 2005 | Feresa Mead and Brownell p. 728 |
| 2008 | Feresa Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2009 | Feresa Aguirre-Fernández et al. |
| 2013 | Feresa Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1 |
| 2014 | Feresa Murakami et al. p. 502 figs. Figure 7 |
| 2016 | Feresa Marx et al. p. 140 |
| 2022 | Feresa Bianucci et al. p. 1848 figs. Figure 4 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Feresa Gray 1870 [pygmy killer whale]
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Feresa attenuata Gray 1874 [pygmy killer whale]
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Invalid names: Delphinus intermedius Gray 1827 [synonym], Feresa occulta Jones and Packard 1956 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: Holocene or 0.01170 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0 Ma
Collections (11 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holocene | Japan | Feresa attenuata (168172) | |
| Holocene | Peru | Feresa attenuata (168170) | |
| Holocene | Portugal | Feresa attenuata (168167) | |
| Holocene | Brazil | Feresa attenuata (82092 168165) | |
| Holocene | USA (Oregon) | Feresa attenuata (168168) | |
| Holocene | USA (Florida) | Feresa attenuata (168163) | |
| Holocene | Tanzania | Feresa attenuata (168173) | |
| Holocene | New Zealand | Feresa attenuata (168171) | |
| Holocene | Angola | Feresa attenuata (168166) | |
| Holocene | India | Feresa attenuata (168174) |