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Thunnus alalunga

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: ACTINOPTERYGII
Order: PERCIFORMES
Family: 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:
EnglishALBACORE TUNA

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria: DD    ver 2.3 (1994)
Year Assessed: 1996
Annotations: Needs updating
Assessor/s: Uozumi, Y.

Geographic Range

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; Cuba; Cyprus; Côte d'Ivoire; 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-eastern central; Atlantic-northeast; Atlantic-northwest; Atlantic-southeast; Atlantic-southwest; Atlantic-western central; Mediterranean and Black Sea; Pacific-eastern central; Pacific-northeast; Pacific-northwest; Pacific-western central

Habitat and Ecology

System: Marine

Citation: Uozumi, Y. 1996. Thunnus alalunga. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 28 August 2008.
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