Thunnus orientalis

• 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; Thunnus; Thunnus orientalis; Yukon; Okhotsk; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Milton; Schaefer; Beaufort Sea; Subarctic; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609760; https://zenodo.org/record/5609760

Thunnus orientalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844). Pacific Bluefin Tuna . To 271 cm (8.9 ft) FL (Foreman and Ishizuka 1990). Western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002), southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998), and southern Sea of Okhotsk; Shelikof Strait, Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to just inside southwest corner of Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015). Oceanic epipelagic; depth: surface to 1,426 m (4,677 ft) (Kurt Schaefer, pers. comm. to M.L.). Previously considered a subspecies of Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758), raised to full species status by Collette (1999). The size of more than 3 m (10 ft) FL and weight of about 680 kg given by Mecklenburg et al. (2002), after Collette and Nauen (1983), pertains to the Atlantic species, T. thynnus . : 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 212, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Foreman, T. J. Y. Ishizuka, Y. (1990) Giant bluefin tuna off southern California, with a new California size record. California Fish and Game, 76, 181 - 186.", "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.", "Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages", "Collette, B. B. (1999) Mackerels, molecules, and morphology. In: Seret, B. & Sire, J. - Y. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5 th Indo- Pacific Fish Conference, Noumea-New Caledonia, 1997. Societe Francaise d'Ichtyologie, Paris, pp. 149 - 164.", "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."]}