Can you change something about the Kyogre information?

Question

Under Kyogre it says its name came from the whale species, orca. But in reality the orca is not a whale but a dolphin so if you could change that I would very happy thank you!

Comments

Post this here: http://pokemondb.net/pokebase/meta/55591/report-minor-site-errors-here?show=58093#c58093

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but orca is whale .-.?

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orcas=killer whales
killer whales=poorly named

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also, it should probably go here ---> http://pokemondb.net/pokebase/meta/9913/errors-with-our-name-origins-etymology-page

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whales and dolphins are both in the order Cetacea. The two suborders are baleen whales and tooth whales. All dolphins belong in the suborder of tooth whales. Beyond that, how you define dolphin is completely up to you.

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It's classified as a whale but is in the same family as dolphins (Delphinidae).

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Interesting. However, since dolphins supposedly share the same common ancestor as all whales do, I classify dolphins as whales. Case closed?

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@sumwun everything shares the same common ancestor if you go back far enough ;)

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I mean, there's no ancestor that all whales share that dolphins do not. Sorry.

Answer 1

The killer whale (Orcinus orca), also referred to as the orca whale or orca, and less commonly as the blackfish or grampus, is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family, of which it is the largest member.

So it's still a species of "toothed whale". TBH it doesn't really matter, the point is the name comes from "orca whale".