Thunnus obesus

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA CHORDATA ACTINOPTERYGII PERCIFORMES SCOMBRIDAE

Scientific Name: Thunnus obesus
Species Authority: (Lowe, 1839)
Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:
See Thunnus obesus (Pacific stock)
Common Name/s:
English Bigeye Tuna

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Vulnerable   A1bd   ver 2.3
Year Assessed: 1996
Annotations:
Needs updating
Assessor/s Uozumi, Y.

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:
Native:
American Samoa; Angola; Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Aruba; Australia; Bahamas; Bangladesh; Barbados; Benin; Bermuda; Brazil; British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago); Brunei Darussalam; Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Chile (Easter Is.); China; Christmas Island; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Colombia; Comoros; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Cook Islands; Côte d'Ivoire; Cuba; Djibouti; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador (Galápagos); Equatorial Guinea; Fiji; French Guiana; French Polynesia (Marquesas, Tuamotu); Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guam; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; India; Indonesia; Jamaica; Japan; Kenya; Kiribati; Liberia; Madagascar; Malaysia; Maldives; Marshall Islands; Martinique; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mexico; Micronesia, Federated States of; Montserrat; Morocco; Mozambique; Myanmar; Namibia; Nauru; Netherlands Antilles (Curaçao); New Caledonia; New Zealand; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Niue; Norfolk Island; Northern Mariana Islands; Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Peru; Philippines; Pitcairn; Portugal (Azores, Madeira); 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 States (Hawaiian Is.); United States Minor Outlying Islands (Johnston I., Midway Is., Wake Is.); Vanuatu; Venezuela; Viet Nam; Virgin Islands, British; Virgin Islands, U.S.; Wallis and Futuna; Western Sahara
FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Native:
Atlantic – southeast;  Atlantic – western central;  Atlantic – eastern central;  Atlantic – southwest;  Indian Ocean – western;  Indian Ocean – eastern;  Pacific – northwest;  Pacific – western central;  Pacific – southwest;  Pacific – eastern central;  Pacific – southeast

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems: Marine

Bibliography [top]

Citations:

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Citation: Uozumi, Y. 1996. Thunnus obesus. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 November 2009.
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