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Auxis rochei
Description
Auxis rochei (Risso, 1810).
Bullet Tuna. To 55 cm (21.6 in) TL (Nakamura in Masuda et al. 1984). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); between Halfmoon Bay and San Francisco, central California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California) to northern Chile (Pequeño 1997), including Gulf of California (Collette in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Neritic and oceanic epipelagic; depth: surface to 200 m (656 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002). The eastern Pacific form is recognized as the subspecies Auxis rochei eudorax Collette and Aadland 1996 (Collette 2003).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 211, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Scombridae
- Genus
- Auxis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Risso
- Species
- rochei
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Auxis rochei (Risso, 1810) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Masuda, H., Amaoka, K., Araga, C., Uyeno, T. & Yoshino, T. (Eds). (1984) The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Parin, N. V. (2003) An annotated catalogue of fish-like vertebrates and fishes of the seas of Russia and adjacent countries: Part 3. Orders Perciformes (excluding suborders Gobioidei, Zoarcoidei and Stichaeoidei) and Tetraodontiformes. Journal of Ichthyology, 43, S 1 - S 40.
- Pequeno R., G. (1997) Peces de Chile. Lista sistematica revisada y comentada: addendum. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 32, 77 - 94.
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Collette, B. B. & Aadland, C. R. (1996) Revision of the frigate tunas (Scombridae, Auxis), with descriptions of two new subspecies from the eastern Pacific. Fishery Bulletin, 94, 423 - 441.
- Collette, B. B. (2003) Family Scombridae Rafinesque 1815. Mackerels, tunas, and bonitos. California Academy of Sciences Annotated Checklists of Fishes, No. 19.