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Nature 446, 492 (29 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446492c; Published online 28 March 2007
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New species show how little we know of the sea
Shane Guan1
- Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, USA
Your News Feature "Killer in the kelp" (Nature 445, 703–705; 2007) on the killer whale, Orcinus orca, states that the genetic analyses of type-C killer whales in Antarctic waters could lead to the naming of the first new whale species since 2003. However, the killer whale is actually a dolphin species belonging to the family Delphinidae, which includes about 30 species of small and mid-sized odontocetes (toothed whales, dolphins and porpoises).
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