Thunnus alalunga

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA CHORDATA ACTINOPTERYGII PERCIFORMES SCOMBRIDAE

Scientific Name: Thunnus alalunga
Species Authority: (Cetti, 1777)
Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:
See Thunnus alalunga (North Atlantic stock)
See Thunnus alalunga (South Atlantic stock)
Common Name/s:
English Albacore Tuna

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Data Deficient     ver 2.3
Year Assessed: 1996
Annotations:
Needs updating
Assessor/s Uozumi, Y.

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:
Native:
Albania; Algeria; American Samoa; Angola; Australia; Bahamas; Barbados; Benin; Bermuda; Brazil; British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago); Cameroon; Canada (British Columbia); Cape Verde; Chile (Easter Is.); China; Christmas Island; Comoros; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Cook Islands; Côte d'Ivoire; Cuba; Cyprus; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Egypt; Equatorial Guinea; Fiji; France; French Guiana; French Polynesia (Marquesas, Tuamotu); Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Greece; Guam; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; India; Indonesia; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Jamaica; Japan (Ogasawara-shoto); Kenya; Kiribati; Lebanon; Liberia; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Madagascar; Malaysia; Malta; Marshall Islands; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mexico; Micronesia, Federated States of; Monaco; Morocco; Mozambique; Myanmar (Coco Is.); Namibia; Nauru; New Caledonia; New Zealand (Kermadec Is.); Niue; Norfolk Island; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Portugal (Azores, Madeira); Réunion; Saint Helena (Ascension); Samoa; Sao Tomé and Principe; Senegal; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Solomon Islands; Somalia; South Africa; Spain (Canary Is.); Sri Lanka; Suriname; Syrian Arab Republic; Taiwan, Province of China; Tanzania, United Republic of; Timor-Leste; Togo; Tokelau; Tonga; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; Turkey; Turks and Caicos Islands; Tuvalu; United Kingdom; United States (Alaska, Hawaiian Is.); United States Minor Outlying Islands (Johnston I., Midway Is., Wake Is.); Uruguay; Vanuatu; Venezuela; Virgin Islands, U.S.; Wallis and Futuna; Western Sahara
FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Native:
Atlantic – northwest;  Atlantic – western central;  Atlantic – eastern central;  Atlantic – southwest;  Atlantic – southeast;  Atlantic – northeast;  Mediterranean and Black Sea;  Pacific – northeast;  Pacific – northwest;  Pacific – eastern central;  Pacific – western central

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems: Marine
Citation: Uozumi, Y. 1996. Thunnus alalunga. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2010.
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