Orca
Orcinus orca
Category: Whales & Dolphins
IUCN Conservation Status: DD - Data Deficient - not enough data to assess extinction risk
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Cetartiodactyla
- Family
- Delphinidae
- Genus
- Orcinus
Where to Find
Found in 76 diving areas across 45 countries and 9 regions.
- South Australia, Australia - 22 records
- Victoria, Australia - 78 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 25 records
- Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand - 22 records
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 4 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 3 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 1 records
- Aruba Leeward Coast, Aruba - 9 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 6 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 8 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 1 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 1 records
- Klein Bonaire, Bonaire - 6 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 12 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 10 records
- Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands - 3 records
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands - 5 records
- Isla de la Juventud, Cuba - 2 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 2 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 4 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 13 records
- Soufriere-Scotts Head Marine Reserve, Dominica - 2 records
- Bayahibe & La Romana, Dominican Republic - 1 records
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - 1 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 1 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 7 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 6 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 14 records
- Montego Bay, Jamaica - 2 records
- Negril, Jamaica - 2 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 6 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 3 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 12 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 6 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 6 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 6 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 11 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 17 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 24 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 4 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 7 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 14 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 2 records
- Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica - 8 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 1 records
- Roatán, Honduras - 7 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 1 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Sal, Cape Verde - 1 records
- Santiago, Cape Verde - 1 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 11 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Silfra & Thingvellir, Iceland - 172 records
- Strytan & North Iceland, Iceland - 65 records
- South Coast, Ireland - 103 records
- West Coast, Ireland - 28 records
- Algarve & Berlengas, Portugal - 76 records
- Azores, Portugal - 104 records
- West Coast (Gothenburg), Sweden - 14 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 9 records
- Northumberland & Northeast, United Kingdom - 42 records
- Scapa Flow, Orkney, United Kingdom - 1525 records
- Scottish East Coast & Borders, United Kingdom - 28 records
- Scottish West Coast, United Kingdom - 226 records
- New Brunswick & Bay of Fundy, Canada - 1 records
- Newfoundland, Canada - 16 records
- Sea of Cortez, Mexico - 185 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 1 records
- Alaska, United States - 20 records
- Pacific Northwest, United States - 1168 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 4 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 7 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 1 records