Species Pseudorca crassidens (Owen, 1846)

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Species Pseudorca crassidens (Owen, 1846)

False Killer Whale

Phocaena crassidens Owen, R. 1846. A History of British Fossil Mammals and Birds. London : John van Voorst. [516].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown subfossil skull (not in BMNH zoology or palaeontology collections), Lincolnshire fens, near Stanford, England.
Orca meridionalis Flower, W.H. 1865. A new species of Grampus (Orca meridionalis) from Tasmania. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864: 420-426 [420].
Type data:
Syntype(s) RCSE 2 skulls, Tasmania.
Secondary source:
Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259 [79] (see also for synonyms based on non-Australian material)

Generic Combinations

Pseudorca crassidens (Owen, 1846).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate waters.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)