Katsuwonus pelamis

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Perciformes; Scombridae; Katsuwonus; Katsuwonus pelamis; Yukon; Gulf of Alaska; Galapagos; Pacific; Fuller; Milton; Schaefer; Beaufort Sea; Subarctic; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609742; https://zenodo.org/record/5609742

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). : Published as part of 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, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 211, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Collette, B. B. (2003) Family Scombridae Rafinesque 1815. Mackerels, tunas, and bonitos. California Academy of Sciences Annotated Checklists of Fishes, No. 19.", "Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.", "Savinykh, V. F. (1998) Nekton composition of near-surface waters of the subarctic front zone in the northwest part of the Pacific Ocean according to the data of drift-net catches. Journal of Ichthyology, 38, 18 - 27.", "Collette, B. B. & Nauen, C. E. (1983) FAO Species Catalogue. Volume 2. Scombrids of the World. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, Volume 2. FAO, Rome.", "Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.", "Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.", "Schaefer, K. M. & Fuller, D. W. (2007) Vertical movement patterns of skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, as revealed with archival tags. Fishery Bulletin, 105, 379 - 389."]}