Thunnus
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 Yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares
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Thunnus is a genus of ocean-dwelling fish in the family Scombridae, all of which are tuna, although other tuna species are found in other genera.
[edit] Species
There are eight species:
- Albacore, Thunnus alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788).
- Bigeye tuna, Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839).
- Blackfin tuna, Thunnus atlanticus (Lesson, 1831).
- Pacific bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844).
- Northern bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758).
- Southern bluefin tuna, Thunnus maccoyii (Castelnau, 1872).
- Longtail tuna, Thunnus tonggol (Bleeker, 1851).
- Yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788).
Species of several other genera (all in the family Scombridae) also have common names containing tuna.
[edit] References
- Clover, Charles. 2004. The End of the Line: How overfishing is changing the world and what we eat. Ebury Press, London. ISBN 0-09-189780-7
- "Thunnus". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. January 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: p.560.
