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Katsuwonus pelamis
Description
Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus 1758) —Skipjack tuna
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Ningin Island, New Ireland by Munro (1958: 263); also reported from New Ireland as Euthynnus alletteratus (non Rafinesque, 1814) by Munro (1958: 263). Specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2, 3.—General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas. Pelagic, schooling offshore, 0–260 m depth. Marine.
Notes
Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 311, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Scombridae
- Genus
- Katsuwonus
- Species
- pelamis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019
References
- Munro, I. S. R. (1958) The fishes of the New Guinea region. Fishery Bulletin, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, Port Moresby, 1, 97 - 369.