Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788)
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609757 |
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Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) |
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Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) View in CoL .
Yellowfin Tuna. To 206 cm (6.8 ft) FL (Kurt Schaefer, pers. comm. to M.L.) Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Collete and Nauen 1983), and southern Kuril Islands ( Savinykh 1998); one apparently newly dead specimen found on a beach near Tsiu River, Gulf of Alaska (Leon Shaul, pers. comm. to M.L.; specimen’s identity confirmed through a photograph by Kurt Schaefer); also eastern North Pacific at 50°00’N, 150°02’W ( Larkins 1964, Mecklenburg et al. 2002), and Morro Bay, central California ( Squire 1987) to Chile ( Miller and Lea 1972), including Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2015), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Oceanic epipelagic; depth: surface to 1,602 m (5,255 ft) ( Schaefer et al. 2014).
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