Sealife guideThe pacific white-sided dolphinSagmatias obliquidens
Last updated on 01/22/2026 at 12:03 AM
Taxonomy
English names
Pacific white-sided dolphin
French namesDauphin à flancs blancs du Pacifique
Spanish namesDelfín de costados blancos del Pacífico
Scientific nameSagmatias obliquidens (Gill, 1865)
FamilyDelphinidae
OrderCetacea
ClassMammalia
The pacific white-sided dolphin (Sagmatias obliquidens) © Daniel Suter | Dreamstime.com
The pacific white-sided dolphin (Sagmatias obliquidens) © Daniel Suter | Dreamstime.com
Within the same family
Atlantic spotted dolphinStenella frontalis
Atlantic white-sided dolphinLeucopleurus acutus
Commerson's dolphinCephalorhynchus commersonii
Common bottlenose dolphinTursiops truncatus
False killer whalePseudorca crassidens
Indo-Pacific humpback dolphinSousa chinensis
Risso's dolphinGrampus griseus
Short-beaked common dolphinDelphinus delphis
Discover also
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Australian sea lionNeophoca cinerea
DugongDugong dugon
Dwarf minke whaleBalaenoptera acutorostrata
Harbor sealPhoca vitulina
Humpback whaleMegaptera novaeangliae
NarwhalMonodon monoceros
Sperm whalePhyseter macrocephalus
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