vaquita

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vaquita - a short porpoise that lives in the Gulf of California; an endangered species

Phocoena sinus

porpoise - any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth

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El objetivo de la reconversion es generar alternativas productivas al uso de redes agalleras en la pesca riberena y asi disminuir la muerte incidental del mamifero marino Phocoena sinus (vaquita marina).

Assessing biomass and beds of Cortes geoduck Panopea globosa (Dall, 1898) in a virgin area of the upper Gulf of California/Determinacion de biomasa y bancos de la almeja de sifon Panopea globosa (Dall, 1898) en una zona virgen del alto Golfo de California/Determinacao de biomassa e bancos de mexilhao Panopea globosa (Dall, 1898) em uma zona virgem do alto Golfo de California

We extracted specific peaks and values at gait cycle events for each trial using the Event Analyzer (Vaquita Software, Zaragoza, Spain) and then averaged across trials for each condition.

Kinematic and kinetic comparisons of transfemoral amputee gait using C-Leg[R] and Mauch SNS[R] prosthetic knees

Common name Scientific name Vaquita Phocoena sinus Chilean dolphin Cephalorhynchus eutropia Hector's dolphin Cephalorhynchus hectori Commerson's dolphin Cephalorhynchus Commersoni Heaviside's dolphin Cephalorhynchus heavisidii Peale's dolphin Lagenorhynchus australis Finless porpoise Neophocoena phocaenoides Indo-Pacific humpbacked Sousa chinensis dolphins Burmeister's porpoise Phocoena spinipinnis Franciscana Pontoporia blainvillei Indus river dolphin Platanista minor Ganges river dolphin Platanista gangetica Boto Inia geoffrensis Tucuxi Sotalia fluviatilus Common name Habitat Vaquita Northern Gulf of California Chilean dolphin Inshore coastal Chile Hector's dolphin Inshore coastal New Zealand Commerson's dolphin Inshore coastal Chile, Argentina, Falkland Is, Kerguelen Is.

Small-boat surveys for coastal dolphins: line-transect surveys for Hector's dolphins (Cephalorhynchus hectori)

On the other hand, fishing activities in the Upper Gulf of California allegedly caused the reduction of totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi), an endemic large sea bass, and vaquita (Phocoena sinus), an endemic porpoise.

On the Wildlife of Wetlands of the Mexican Portion of the Rio Colorado Delta

Shrimping and gill-netting have also decimated the population of vaquita, a small porpoise found only in the northern gulf.