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Orcinus
Plate 1 of 9. Robert Pittman, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · via iNaturalist

Orcinus

Orcinus is a genus of oceanic dolphin comprising four species: O. paleorca, O. citoniensis, O. meyeri, and O. orca, of which only one (O. orca, e.g., the killer whale) is extant.

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1 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 41520.