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Euthynnus affinis
Description
Euthynnus affinis (Cantor, 1849).
Kawakawa or Mackerel Tuna. To 110 cm (43.3 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); near Diablo Cove, central California (Jay Carroll, pers. comm. to M.L.), and Los Angeles Harbor, southern California (Miller and Lea 1972), and off southern Baja California (Robertson and Allen 2008) and Islas Revillagigedo (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Neritic epipelagic; depth: surface to 73 m (164 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).
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
- Euthynnus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Cantor
- Species
- affinis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Euthynnus affinis (Cantor, 1849) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- 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. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.