totoaba

English

Alternative forms

• totuava

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.
   • 1991, Laura O'Biso Socha, Endangered Species of the World, Mallard Press, page 74:

     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.

   • 1994, Randall R. Reeves, Stephen Leatherwood, Dolphins, Porpoises, and Whales: 1994-1998 Action Plan for the Conservation of Cetaceans, page 47:

     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).

   • 2002 October, Implementation Agreement, Inadvertent Overrun and Payback Policy, and Related Federal Actions, Volume 2: Appendices, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, page G-41,

     Totoaba are the largest of the sciaenid fish, with a maximum reported weight of over 100 kg and a length of over 2 meters (Flanagan and Hendrickson 1976).

   • 2003, Suzanne Michel, “The Geography of Water Transfers and Urbanization in Baja and Southern California”, in Linda Fernandez, Richard T. Carson, editors, Both Sides of the Border: Transboundary Environmental Management Issues Facing Mexico and the United States, page 210:

     After the first year, the totoaba spends most of its adult life in the deep waters of the Gulf of California. The totoaba can grow up to 2 meters in length and weigh 140 kilograms (Morrison, Postel and Gleick 1996, 23).

   • 2009, Matthew J. Forrest, Jorge Ledesma-Vázquez, “12: Active Geothermal Springs and Pliocene-Pleistocene Examples”, in Markes E. Johnson, Jorge Ledesma-Vázquez, editors, Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Western Gulf of California, page 155:

     In the northern Gulf of California, fishermen report that totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi) are being caught illegally around shallow-water hydrothermal vents.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /totoˈaba/ [t̪o.t̪oˈa.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: to‧to‧a‧ba

Noun

totoaba f (plural totoabas)

1. totoaba