Published December 31, 2022 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Katsuwonus pelamis

Description

Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Occurrence: native

Maximum length: 122.1 cm TL; 110 FL

Water type: marine

Environment: pelagic-oceanic

Depth range: 0-260 m

Migration: oceanodromous

IUCN status: LC – Least concern (2011)

Source: bibliography, observation

Distribution and remarks: cosmopolitan in tropical and warm-temperate waters. Not found in the Black Sea. Caught by the artisanal and industrial fishery, during the dry season (Chartrain and De Bruyne, pers. obs.). Highly migratory species, Annex I of the 1982 UNCLOS.

Notes

Published as part of Fermon, Yves, Bailly, Nicolas, Cardiec, Floriane, Causse, Romain, Chartrain, Emmanuel, Chirio, Laurent, Bruyne, Godefroy De, Deynat, Pascal, Hopkins, Carl D., Lamboj, Anton, Mennesson, Marion I., Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve, Paugy, Didier, Sidlauskas, Brian, Sullivan, John P., Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De, Vigliotta, Thomas R. & Zee, Jouke Van Der, 2022, An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon, pp. 2-3 in Cybium 46 (2) on page 213, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2022-462-3-001, http://zenodo.org/record/13153873

Files

Files (942 Bytes)

Name Size Download all
md5:85ea512168fce5a713302e58060d7b47
942 Bytes Download

System files (8.1 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:cdbf3baea6b5dd3e2017caed79f20368
8.1 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details