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 white-sided dolphinLeucopleurus acutus
Indo-Pacific humpback dolphinSousa chinensis
Long-finned pilot whaleGlobicephala melas
Risso's dolphinGrampus griseus
Short-beaked common dolphinDelphinus delphis
Short-finned pilot whaleGlobicephala macrorhynchus
Spinner dolphinStenella longirostris
Striped dolphinStenella coeruleoalba
Discover also
BelugaDelphinapterus leucas
Dwarf minke whaleBalaenoptera acutorostrata
Florida manateeTrichechus manatus latirostris
Harbor sealPhoca vitulina
Humpback whaleMegaptera novaeangliae
NarwhalMonodon monoceros
Southern right whaleEubalaena australis
Sperm whalePhyseter macrocephalus
The marine species in the North Pacific
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