It's finally happening! 🚨"Revised taxonomy of eastern North Pacific killer whales (Orcinus orca): Bigg's and resident ecotypes deserve species status"🚨 Link to publication by Morin et al. 2024 ⬇️ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
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The proposed species names are Bigg's killer whale (Orcinus rectipinnus) and resident killer whale (Orcinus ater). "Rectipinnus" presumably refers to the tall dorsal fin and "ater" means "black" or "dark"
@emmaluck22 Dogs are getting split up into separate species after this, right?