Thunnus albacares
Description
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788).
Yellowfin Tuna. To 206 cm (6.8 ft) FL (Kurt Schaefer, pers. comm. to M.L.) Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Collete and Nauen 1983), and southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); one apparently newly dead specimen found on a beach near Tsiu River, Gulf of Alaska (Leon Shaul, pers. comm. to M.L.; specimen’s identity confirmed through a photograph by Kurt Schaefer); also eastern North Pacific at 50°00’N, 150°02’W (Larkins 1964, Mecklenburg et al. 2002), and Morro Bay, central California (Squire 1987) to Chile (Miller and Lea 1972), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Oceanic epipelagic; depth: surface to 1,602 m (5,255 ft) (Schaefer et al. 2014).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Scombridae
- Genus
- Thunnus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bonnaterre
- Species
- albacares
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Savinykh, V. F. (1998) Nekton composition of near-surface waters of the subarctic front zone in the northwest part of the Pacific Ocean according to the data of drift-net catches. Journal of Ichthyology, 38, 18 - 27.
- Larkins, H. A. (1964) Some epipelagic fishes of the North Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea, and Gulf of Alaska. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 93, 286 - 290.
- Squire, J. L. (1987) Relation of sea surface temperature changes during the 1983 El Nino to the geographical distribution of some important recreational pelagic species and their catch temperature parameters in the northeast Pacific. Marine Fisheries Review, 49 (2), 44 - 57.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Schaefer, K. M., Fuller, D. W. & Aldana, G. (2014) Movements, behavior, and habitat utilization of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) in waters surrounding the Revillagigedo Islands Archipelago Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. Fisheries Oceanography, 23, 65 - 82. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / fog. 12047