Thunnus albacares

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA CHORDATA ACTINOPTERYGII PERCIFORMES SCOMBRIDAE

Scientific Name: Thunnus albacares
Species Authority: (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Common Name/s:
English Yellowfin Tuna

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Lower Risk/least concern     ver 2.3
Year Assessed: 1996
Annotations:
Needs updating
Assessor/s Punt, A.

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:
Native:
American Samoa; Angola; Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Aruba; Australia; Bahamas; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belize; Benin; Bermuda; Brazil; British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago); Brunei Darussalam; Cameroon; Cape Verde; Chile (Easter Is.); Christmas Island; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Colombia; Comoros; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Cook Islands; Costa Rica; Côte d'Ivoire; Cuba; Djibouti; Dominican Republic; Ecuador (Galápagos); El Salvador; Equatorial Guinea; Fiji; French Guiana; French Polynesia (Marquesas); Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guam; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Ireland; Jamaica; Japan; Kenya; Kiribati; Liberia; Madagascar; Malaysia; Maldives; Marshall Islands; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mexico; Micronesia, Federated States of; Montserrat; Morocco; Mozambique; Namibia; Nauru; Netherlands Antilles (Curaçao); New Caledonia; New Zealand (Kermadec Is.); Nicaragua; Nigeria; Niue; Norfolk Island; Northern Mariana Islands; Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Peru; Philippines; Pitcairn; Portugal (Azores, Madeira); Puerto Rico; Réunion; Saint Helena (Ascension); Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Samoa; Sao Tomé and Principe; Senegal; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Solomon Islands; Somalia; South Africa; Spain; Sri Lanka; Suriname; Taiwan, Province of China; Tanzania, United Republic of; Timor-Leste; Togo; Tokelau; Tonga; Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands; Tuvalu; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; United States (Hawaiian Is.); United States Minor Outlying Islands (Johnston I., Midway Is., Wake Is.); Vanuatu; Venezuela; Virgin Islands, British; Virgin Islands, U.S.; Wallis and Futuna; Yemen
FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Native:
Atlantic – southwest;  Atlantic – eastern central;  Atlantic – southeast;  Indian Ocean – eastern;  Indian Ocean – western;  Pacific – southwest;  Pacific – western central;  Pacific – eastern central

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems: Marine
Citation: Punt, A. 1996. Thunnus albacares. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 February 2010.
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