vaquita
Noun
Meaning
vaquita (plural vaquitas)
A small and critically endangered porpoise, Phocoena sinus, endemic to the northern part of the Gulf of California, Mexico.
Synonyms
vaquita marina
gulf of california harbor porpoise
gulf of california porpoise
cochito
desert porpoise
gulf porpoise
vaquita porpoise
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Examples
“We have been responsible for driving the vaquita to extinction,” he said.
Yet the most serious threat to the vaquita is that for the last few decades its fate has been tied to that of the totoaba, a large fish that also lives only in the gulf and is at the center of a highly lucrative black market trade.