Thunnus albacares

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Perciformes; Scombridae; Thunnus; Thunnus albacares; Yukon; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Milton; Morro; Schaefer; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5609757; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609757

Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788). 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). 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