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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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