Vaquita

Vaquita
Size compared tae an average human
Conservation status
Creetically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Order:	Cetacea
Suborder:	Odontoceti
Faimily:	Phocoenidae
Genus:	Phocoena
Species:	P. sinus
Binomial name
Phocoena sinus Norris & McFarland, 1958
Vaquita range

The vaquita (Phocoena sinus) is a rare species o dunter. It anely bides in the northren pairt o the Gulf o Californie. The wird "vaquita" is Spainish for little cou.^[2] Syne the baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) is believed tae hae gone extinct in 2006,^[3] the vaquita haes taken on the teetle o the maist endangered cetacean in the warld.^[4]

Ither names include cochito, desert porpoise, Gulf o California harbor porpoise, Gulf o Californie porpoise, an gulf porpoise.