What is Vaquita?
{{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Holocene}}<ref>{{cite web|last1=Fossilworks Database|title=Fossilworks|url=http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=82072|website=Fossilworks Gateway to paleotology|publisher=John Alory|accessdate=2018-04-25|archive-date=2020-02-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200201201120/http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=82072|url-status=dead}}</ref> | name = Vaquita | image = Vaquita4 Olson NOAA.jpg | image_caption = | status = CR | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref=<ref name=IUCN>{{cite iucn |last1=Rojas-Bracho |first1=L. |last2=Taylor |first2=B.L. |year=2017 |title=''Phocoena sinus'' |journal=[[IUCN Red List of Threatened Species]] |doi= 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T17028A50370296.en |volume= 2017|page= e.T17028A50370296 |url= https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/17028/50370296 |accessdate= 18 February 2019}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20180824140252/http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/17028/0 (previous version)]</ref> | image2 = Vaquita size.svg | image2_caption = Size compared to an average human | genus = Phocoena | species = sinus | authority = [[Kenneth S. Norris|Norris]] & [[William N. McFarland|McFarland]], 1958 | range_map = cetacea_range_map_Vaquita.PNG | range_map_caption = Vaquita range }} The '''vaquita''' (''Phocoena sinus'') is a rare type of [[porpoise]]. It lives only in the [[Gulf of California]]. It is the world's smallest cetacean and most [[Endangered species|endangered]] marine mammal.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dunch|first=Victoria|date=2019-08-01|title=Saving the vaquita one bite at a time: The missing role of the shrimp consumer in vaquita conservation|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X19304898|journal=Marine Pollution Bulletin|language=en|volume=145|pages=583–586|doi=10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.06.043|pmid=31590827|s2cid=198269466|issn=0025-326X}}</ref> The Vaquita is listed as Critically Endangered by the [[Endangered species|International Union of Conservation of Nature]].<ref name=