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Thunnus alalunga
Description
Thunnus alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788).
Albacore. To 152 cm (5 ft) TL (Foreman 1980). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Collette and Nauen 1983), and southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); northern and eastern Gulf of Alaska (Karinen et al. 1985, Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Chile (Foreman 1980), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015). Oceanic epipelagic and mesopelagic; depth: surface to 1,185 m (3,887 ft) (Childers et al. 2011).
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 212, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Scombridae
- Genus
- Thunnus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bonnaterre
- Species
- alalunga
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Thunnus alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Foreman, T. J. (1980) Synopsis of biological data on the albacore tuna, Thunnus alalunga (Bonnatere, 1788), in the Pacific Ocean. In: Bayliff, W. H. (Ed.), Synopses of biological data on eight species of scombrids. International American Tropical Tuna Commission, Special Report, Number 2, pp. 17 - 70.
- 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.
- 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.
- Karinen, J. F., Wing, B. L. & Straty, R. R. (1985) Records and sightings of fish and invertebrates in the eastern Gulf of Alaska and oceanic phenonmenon related to the 1983 El Nino event. In: Wooster, W. S. & Fluherty, D. L. (Eds.), El Nino North: Nino Effects in the Eastern Subarctic Pacific Ocean. Washington Sea Grant Program, University of Washington, Seattle.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- 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
- Childers, J., Snyder, S. & Kohin, S. (2011) Migration and behavior of juvenile North Pacific albacore (Thunnus alalunga). Fisheries Oceanography, 20, 157 - 173. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2419.2011.00575. x