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Thunnus albacares

Authors/Creators

  • 1. National Natural History Collections and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel. dani. golani @ mail. huji. ac. il; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4575 - 3324
  • 2. National Natural History Collections and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel. dani. golani @ mail. huji. ac. il; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4575 - 3324 & Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Gewann Rosenstein / Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany. ronald. fricke @ smns-bw. de; ronfricke @ web. de; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1476 - 6990 Corresponding author. D. Golani: dani. golani @ mail. huji. ac. il & National Natural History Collections and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel. dani. golani @ mail. huji. ac. il; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4575 - 3324

Description

Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre 1788) − Yellowfin tuna

Gulf of Suez: −

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Germo albacora), Jordan (Marshall 1952, as Thynnus albacora).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Debelius 2007), Sudan (Olsen et al. 2021), Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia 1968), Yemen (Heba et al. 1998).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

IUCN (2021): Least Concern.

Remarks: Lessepsian migrant in eastern Mediterranean Sea (Michailidis et al. 2021; Golani 2025).

Notes

Published as part of Golani, Daniel & Fricke, Ronald, 2026, Revised checklist of the fishes of the Red Sea, including distribution in the Gulf of Suez and Gulf of Aqaba, with notes on endemism and Lessepsian migration, pp. 1-257 in Zootaxa 5780 (1) on page 91, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5780.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/19175291

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bonnaterre
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Scombridae
Genus
Thunnus
Species
albacares
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) sec. Golani & Fricke, 2026

References

  • Steinitz, H. & Ben-Tuvia, A. (1955) Fishes from Eylath (Gulf of Aqaba), Red Sea. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, 11, 1-15.
  • Marshall, N. B. (1952) The`Manihine' expedition to the Gulf of Aqaba 1948 - 1949. IX. Fishes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 1 (8), 221-252. https://doi.org/10.5962/p.314127
  • Debelius, H. (2007) Red Sea reef guide. Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Arabian Peninsula. Circler, Richmond, Surrey, 321 pp.
  • Olsen, E., Axelsen, B. E., Moland, E., Utne-Palm, A. C., Elamin, E. M., Mukhtar, M. A., Saleh, A. M., Elamin, S. M., Iragi, M. A. & Gumaa, S. G. F. (2021) Distribution and diversity of fish species along the Sudanese Red Sea coast based on three combined trap and gillnet surveys. Fisheries Research, 242 (106032), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2021.106032
  • Ben-Tuvia, A. (1968) Report on the fisheries investigations of the Israel South Red Sea Expedition, 1962. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Haifa, 52, 21-55.
  • Heba, H. M., Al - Hassan, A. A. J. & Fareed, K. H. (1998) Some commercial fishes collected from the Red Sea coast of Yemen. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, Seccion Biologia, 94 (1 - 2), 63-66.
  • Michailidis, S., Manitaras, Y. & Bariche, M. (2021) Unusual records of a yellowfin tuna and a black marlin in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Mediterranean Marine Science, 22 (3), 645-646. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms26669
  • Golani, D. (2025) Update of Red Sea (Lessepsian) fish species in the Mediterranean Sea since the 2 nd CIESM Atlas of Exotic Fish. Mediterranean Marine Science, 26 (1), 149-155. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.39390