Pseudorca crassidens

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lexID:

11684 

AphiaID:

137104 

Scientific:

Pseudorca crassidens 

German:

Schwarzer Schwertwal, Unechter Schwertwal, Kleine Schwertwal 

English:

False Killer Whale 

Category:

Zoogdieren 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Mammalia (Class) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Delphinidae (Family) > Pseudorca (Genus) > crassidens (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Owen, ), 1846 

Occurrence:

East Africa, Barbados, Cambodia, Straße von Gibralta, the Ivory Coast, the Baltic Sea, Kenya, Suriname, French Polynesia, Pacific Ocean, Corea, Togo, Guadeloupe, Portugal, (the) Maldives, Tuvalu, Hawaii, Solomon Islands, the Mediterranean Sea, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, Sierra Leone, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), New Zealand, West-Atlantic Ocean, Indo Pacific, Cook Islands, Northeast Pacific Ocean, Zirkumsubtropisch, Yemen, Dominican Republic, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Bermuda, the Cape Verde Archipelago, South Australia, Fiji, Panama, Columbia, Thailand, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Philippines, Madagascar, Trinidad and Tobago, Red Sea, Vanuatu, the Black Sea, the British Isles, Nauru, West Sahara, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Australia, Jamaica, Djibouti, East-Atlantic Ocean, Belize, Cameroon, South America, Ecuador, Pakistan, Kiribati, Taiwan, Gambia, the Persian Gulf , Cuba, Tokelau, Guam, Puerto Rico, Morocco, Uruguay, Samoa, Myanmar, Vietnam, Scandinavia, Brunei Darussalam, Nicaragua, Western Australia, Iran, Costa Rica, Northern Mariana Islands, Circumtropic, Jordan, El Salvador, Eastern Indian Ocean, Quatar, South-Pazific, French Guiana, Papua, Congo, Timor, Pitcairn Islands, Malaysia, Haiti, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Micronesia, Venezuela, Senegal, New Caledonia, West Africa, Equatorial Guinea, Indonesia, Niue, Central Atlantic, The Bahamas, Eastern Pacific Ocean, Benin, South Atlantic, European Coasts, Palau, the Cocos Islands / Keeling Islands, Tasmanien, Ghana, Peru, Kuwait, Tonga, Guatemala, Raja Amat, Marschall Islands, USA, India, São Tomé e Principé, Namibia, Wallis and Futuna, Spain, the Cayman Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, Western Pacific Ocean, Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Israel, Amerikaans-Samoa, Amerikaanse Maagdeneilanden, Anguilla, Antigua en Barbuda, Argentinië, Aruba, Bali, Bangladesh, Borneo, Brazilië, Britse Maagdeneilanden, Canada, Chili, China, Curacao, Dominica, Egypte, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Indische Oceaan, Japan, Martinique, St. Kitts en Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent en de Grenadines, Turks and Caicos Islands, Westelijke Indische Oceaan 

Sea depth:

1 - 2332 Meter 

Size:

bis zu 600cm 

Weight:

2000 kg 

Food:

Tuna, Carnivore, Grote vissen, Kleine haaien, Nekton, Roofzuchtig, Sepia, Vissen (kleine vissen) 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for aquarium keeping 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Appendix II ((commercial trade possible after a safety assessment by the exporting country)) 

Red List:

Data deficient (DD) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Pseudorca crassidens
  Schwarzer Schwertwal, Unechter Schwertwal, Kleine Schwertwal

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2018-09-02 12:28:15 

Last edit:

2018-09-09 20:17:54 

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