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Thunnus thynnus
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Description
Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus 1758) —Northern bluefin tuna
Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Orcynus thynnus, L. by Gruvel (1931: 106); recently recorded as Thunnus thynnus by Bariche & Di Natale (2019).
Distribution. Western Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, Black Sea, temperate waters of the North Atlantic; southeastern Atlantic: South Africa.
Conservation. IUCN: Global (EN: A2 bd, 18 February 2011); Med. (EN: A2 bd, 12 May 2009). Capture and threats: FIT, Unknown. Occurrence: Common. Low priority for conservation action.
Notes
Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on page 84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- EN
- Event date
- 2009-05-12
- Family
- Scombridae
- Genus
- Thunnus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- A2
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- thynnus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2009-05-12/2011-02-18
- Taxonomic concept label
- Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Bariche & Fricke, 2020
References
- Gruvel, A. (1931) Les Etats de Syrie. Richesses marines et fluviales. Exploitation actuelle-Avenir. Societe d'Editions Geographiques, Maritimes et Coloniale, 453 pp.
- Bariche, M. & Di Natale, A. (2019) Preliminary information on the Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) fishery in Lebanon. Collective Volumes of Scientific Papers, ICCAT, 75 (6), 1278 - 1281.