Orcinus

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 137021ITIS 180468key worms:137021

2026-08-05: itis_id 180468 via WoRMS external link

Orcinus is a genus of Delphinidae (dolphins), in the infraorder Cetacea. It includes the largest delphinoid species, Orcinus orca, known as the orca or killer whale.W CalCOFI holds 21 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1987 and 2022.R

21
observations: 21
records: 1987–2022
years: 2
datasets

Photo · Robert Pittman, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:137021")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 1 taxon

sp Orcinus orca Killer Whale21

Lineage 13 ranks · Biota to Delphinidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Orcinus orca · source
Photo · Robert Pittman, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Orcinus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354640412

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist GBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

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