Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758)

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, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 211

Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758) .

Skipjack Tuna. To 108 cm (42.5 in) FL (Kurt Schaefer, pers. comm. to M.L.). Circumglobal ( Collette 2003); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002) and southern Kuril Islands ( Savinykh 1998); near Cordova, Gulf of Alaska (60°21.2’N, 146°05.3’W) (Steve Moffitt, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Chile ( Collette and Nauen 1983), including southern Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2002) and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Oceanic epipelagic; depth: surface to 596 m (1,955 ft) ( Schaefer and Fuller 2007).