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Thunnus obesus
Description
Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839).
Bigeye Tuna. To 236 cm (7.7 ft) FL (Kurt Schaefer, pers. comm. to M.L.). The 250 cm (8.2 ft) TL record of Nakamura in Masuda et al. (1984) is likely in error (Kurt Schaefer, pers. comm.). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Collette and Nauen 1983), and southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); Iron Springs, central Washington (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including Islas Galápagos (Miller and Lea 1972); apparently not in Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002). Oceanic epipelagic and mesopelagic; depth: surface to 1,902 m (6,239 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Schaefer and Fuller 2010).
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
- Lowe
- Species
- obesus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- 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. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Schaefer, K. M. & Fuller, D. W. (2010) Vertical movements, behavior, and habitat of bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, ascertained from archival tag data. Marine Biology, 157, 2625 - 2642. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00227 - 010 - 1524 - 3