diff --git a/src/taggingbackends/data/dataset.py b/src/taggingbackends/data/dataset.py
index 0f8b9661fe63f8667b1f521df80c444a98248736..74c39aca8936d9a7db4be84b7f7992905a975130 100644
--- a/src/taggingbackends/data/dataset.py
+++ b/src/taggingbackends/data/dataset.py
@@ -210,11 +210,6 @@ class LarvaDataset:
         except StopIteration:
             pass
     """
-    Alias for `getbatch`, for backward compatibility.
-    """
-    def getsample(self, subset, n):
-        return self.getbatch(subset, n)
-    """
     *int*: number of time points in a segment.
     """
     @property