Phocoena sinus Norris and McFarland 1958

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 723-743 : 736

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Phocoena sinus Norris and McFarland 1958 View in CoL

Phocoena sinus Norris and McFarland 1958 View in CoL , J. Mammal., 39: 22.

Type Locality: "from the northeast shore of Punta San Felipe, Baja California Norte, Gulf of California, Mexico ".

Vernacular Names: Vaquita.

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).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered.

Discussion: Reviewed by Brownell (1983, Mammalian Species, 198).