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Orcinus orca

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Classifications [top]

List of Habitats:
9 Marine Neritic
9.1 Marine Neritic - Pelagic
9.10 Marine Neritic - Estuaries
10 Marine Oceanic
10.1 Marine Oceanic - Epipelagic (0-200m)
List of Threats:
4 Transportation & service corridors
4.3 Shipping lanes
5 Biological resource use
5.4 Fishing & harvesting aquatic resources
5.4.1 Intentional use: (subsistence/small scale)
5.4.5 Persecution/control
6 Human intrusions & disturbance
6.1 Recreational activities
8 Invasive & other problematic species & genes
8.2 Problematic native species
9 Pollution
9.2 Industrial & military effluents
9.2.1 Oil spills
9.2.3 Type Unknown/Unrecorded
9.3 Agricultural & forestry effluents
9.3.4 Type Unknown/Unrecorded
11 Climate change & severe weather
11.1 Habitat shifting & alteration
11.5 Other impacts
Citation: Taylor, B.L., Baird, R., Barlow, J., Dawson, S.M., Ford, J., Mead, J.G., Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., Wade, P. & Pitman, R.L. 2008. Orcinus orca. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 May 2013.
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