Phocoena sinus

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Noun1.Phocoena sinus - a short porpoise that lives in the Gulf of California; an endangered species
vaquita
porpoise - any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth
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The paper, Decline towards extinction of Mexico's vaquita porpoise (Phocoena sinus) by Armando M Jaramillo-Legorreta, Gustavo Cardenas-Hinojosa, Edwyna Nieto-Gardia, Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, Len Thoma, Ja M Ver Hoef, Jeffrey Moore, Barbara Taylor, Jay Barlow and Nicholas Tregenza is published today in Royal Society Open Science, available online.
University of St Andrews: Porpoise faces extinction
For example, the recent virtual extinction of the Yangtze River Dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer) in China (Smith et al., 2008) and 'critically endangered' status of others, such as the Vaquita, Phocoena sinus (Rojas-Bracho et al., 2008) are evidence of rapidly declining population sizes and uncertain futures of such species worldwide.
Habitat Preference and Behaviour of the Guiana Dolphin (Sotalia guianensis) in a Well-Preserved Estuary off Southern Brazil
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