Sagmatias

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 380488ITIS 770824key worms:380488

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

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

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

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

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

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

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

Under it 1 taxon

sp Sagmatias obliquidens Pacific White-Sided Dolphin197

Lineage 13 ranks · Biota to Delphinidae

Credits silhouette · text

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Leucopleurus acutus · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Sagmatias” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1295214620

Elsewhere Wikidata · GBIF

Wikidata GBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗