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Thunnus orientalis

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Description

Thunnus orientalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844).

Pacific Bluefin Tuna. To 271 cm (8.9 ft) FL (Foreman and Ishizuka 1990). Western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002), southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998), and southern Sea of Okhotsk; Shelikof Strait, Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to just inside southwest corner of Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015). Oceanic epipelagic; depth: surface to 1,426 m (4,677 ft) (Kurt Schaefer, pers. comm. to M.L.). Previously considered a subspecies of Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758), raised to full species status by Collette (1999). The size of more than 3 m (10 ft) FL and weight of about 680 kg given by Mecklenburg et al. (2002), after Collette and Nauen (1983), pertains to the Atlantic species, T. thynnus.

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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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF42FF6198EAF888F8413144

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF87FFAEFF91FFB5987DFFF2FA413005 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FF42FF6198EAF888F8413144 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191884144 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FF42FF6198EAF888F8413144.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Scombridae
Genus
Thunnus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Temminck & Schlegel
Species
orientalis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Thunnus orientalis (Temminck, 1844) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • Foreman, T. J. Y. Ishizuka, Y. (1990) Giant bluefin tuna off southern California, with a new California size record. California Fish and Game, 76, 181 - 186.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Collette, B. B. (1999) Mackerels, molecules, and morphology. In: Seret, B. & Sire, J. - Y. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5 th Indo- Pacific Fish Conference, Noumea-New Caledonia, 1997. Societe Francaise d'Ichtyologie, Paris, pp. 149 - 164.
  • 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.