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Sagmatias

WoRMS 380488ITIS 770824key worms:380488
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2026-08-05: itis_id 770824 via WoRMS external link; WoRMS Sagmatias unaccepted -> Lagenorhynchus (worms:137020)

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Leucopleurus acutus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Sagmatias was a genus of dolphins, defined in 1866 by Edward Drinker Cope with Peale's dolphin as type species, described as Sagmatias amblodon. It has been proposed to resurrect the genus to include four species of oceanic dolphins currently classified in the genus Lagenorhynchus.W CalCOFI holds 197 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2020.R

197
observations
197
records
1987–2020
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:380488")