Thunnus orientalis

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...

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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 orientalis
Gulf of Alaska
Milton
Okhotsk
Pacific
Schaefer
Yukon
Beaufort Sea
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5609761
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609761
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Summary: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

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