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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Sagmatias obliquidens

Pacific White-Sided Dolphin

WoRMS 1571909ITIS 180444key worms:1571909
Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Leucopleurus acutus
Pacific White-Sided Dolphin2.5 m
a person1.7 m

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The Pacific white-sided dolphin, also known as the hookfin porpoise, is an active dolphin found in the cool or temperate waters of the North Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 197 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2020.R

197
observations
197
records
197
sampling events
1987–2020
years
1
datasets

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Seabirds & Marine Mammals 197 obs · 197 events · 1987–2020
    name used: Lagenorhynchus obliquidens Pacific White-Sided Dolphin · code PWSD synonym

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Groups

calcofi:marine_mammals

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:1571909%22