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totoaba

totoaba noun: the marine fish Totoaba macdonaldi, the largest member of the drumfish family Sciaenidae, endemic to the Gulf of California, Mexico.

Noun

totoaba (plural totoabas or totoaba)

  1. The marine fish Totoaba macdonaldi, the largest member of the drumfish family Sciaenidae, endemic to the Gulf of California, Mexico.
    • In 1985, seven vaquitas were caught in gill nets being used by Mexican fishermen to catch totoabas (a species of large sea bass), the major commercial species.1991, Laura O'Biso Socha, Endangered Species of the World, Mallard Press, page 74
    • However, porpoises are also caught in other fishing gear, and there is concern that effort will be re-directed from catching totoabas to catching large sharks and rays in nets that threaten vaquitas (cf. Vidal 1993).1994, Randall R. Reeves, Stephen Leatherwood, Dolphins, Porpoises, and Whales: 1994-1998 Action Plan for the Conservation of Cetaceans, page 47

Examples of totoaba in a sentence

  • After the first year, the totoaba spends most of its adult life in the deep waters of the Gulf of California.2003, Suzanne Michel, “The Geography of Water Transfers and Urbanization in Baja and Southern California”, in Linda Fernandez, Richard T....
  • In the northern Gulf of California, fishermen report that totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi) are being caught illegally around shallow-water hydrothermal vents.2009, Matthew J. Forrest, Jorge Ledesma-Vázquez, “12: Active Geothermal Springs and Pliocene-Pleistocene Examples”, in Markes E. Johnson...

Forms of totoaba

pluraltotoabas
pluraltotoaba
alternative formtotuava

Questions about totoaba

What does totoaba mean?
Totoaba means the marine fish Totoaba macdonaldi, the largest member of the drumfish family Sciaenidae, endemic to the Gulf of California, Mexico.
How do you use totoaba in a sentence?
After the first year, the totoaba spends most of its adult life in the deep waters of the Gulf of California.
What part of speech is totoaba?
Totoaba is a noun.
What is the plural of totoaba?
The plural of totoaba is totoabas.

Words near totoaba in the dictionary

  1. Totnes
  2. Totnes Valley
  3. toto
  4. toto caelo
  5. toto genere
  6. totoaba
  7. totoabas
  8. totok
  9. Totomian
  10. Toton
  11. Totonac

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