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Katsuwonus pelamis
Description
Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758).
Skipjack Tuna. To 108 cm (42.5 in) FL (Kurt Schaefer, pers. comm. to M.L.). Circumglobal (Collette 2003); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002) and southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); near Cordova, Gulf of Alaska (60°21.2’N, 146°05.3’W) (Steve Moffitt, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Chile (Collette and Nauen 1983), including southern Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Oceanic epipelagic; depth: surface to 596 m (1,955 ft) (Schaefer and Fuller 2007).
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
- Katsuwonus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- pelamis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Collette, B. B. (2003) Family Scombridae Rafinesque 1815. Mackerels, tunas, and bonitos. California Academy of Sciences Annotated Checklists of Fishes, No. 19.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- 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.
- Collette, B. B. & Nauen, C. E. (1983) FAO Species Catalogue. Volume 2. Scombrids of the World. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, Volume 2. FAO, Rome.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Schaefer, K. M. & Fuller, D. W. (2007) Vertical movement patterns of skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, as revealed with archival tags. Fishery Bulletin, 105, 379 - 389.