totoaba
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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)."
- "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)."
- "In the northern Gulf of California, fishermen report that totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi) are being caught illegally around shallow-water hydrothermal vents."