The totoaba or totuava (Totoaba macdonaldi) is a species of marine fish, a very large member of the drum family Sciaenidae that is endemic to the Gulf of California in Mexico.[4] It is the only species in the genus Totoaba. Formerly abundant and subject to an intensive fishery, the totoaba has become rare, and is listed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora under Appendix I.[2] It is also listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as vulnerable,[1] by NatureServe as critically imperiled[5] and under the U.S. Endangered Species Act as endangered.[4]
^ abCisneros-Mata, M.Á., True, C., Enriquez-Paredes, L.M., Sadovy, Y. & Liu, M. (2021). "Totoaba macdonaldi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021. IUCN: e.T22003A2780880. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T22003A2780880.en. Retrieved 4 February 2023.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ abFroese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2021). "Totoaba macdonaldi" in FishBase. May 2021 version.
^Alejandro Villamar (1980). "Totoaba, un nuevo género de la familia Sciaenidae del Golfo de California, México (Pisces: Teleostei)" (PDF). Anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, México (in Spanish). 23 (1/4): 129–133.
^ ab"Totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi)". NOAA Office of Protected Resources. NOAA. 5 December 2012. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
^NatureServe (3 February 2023). "Totoaba macdonaldi". NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia: NatureServe. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
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