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--> FAMILY Phocoenidae
--> GENUS Phocoena
SPECIES Phocoena sinus
Author: | Norris and McFarland, 1958. | Citation: | J. Mammal., 39: 22, pl. 1-4. | Common Name: | Vaquita | Type Locality: | "from the northeast shore of Punta San Felipe, Baja California Norte, Gulf of California, Mexico". | Distribution: | North Pacific: warm-temperate waters; northern Gulf of California (Mexico); erroneously reported from the S Gulf of California, including Tres Marías Isls and N Jalisco (Brownell, 1986). | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered. | Comments: | Reviewed by Brownell (1983, Mammalian Species, 198). |
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