The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Thunnus albacares

 – Lower Risk Least Concern

Taxonomy

Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: ACTINOPTERYGII
Order: PERCIFORMES
Family: SCOMBRIDAE
Scientific Name: Thunnus albacares
Species Authority: (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Common Name/s:
EnglishYELLOWFIN TUNA

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria: LR/lc    ver 2.3 (1994)
Year Assessed: 1996
Annotations: Needs updating
Assessor/s: Punt, A.

Geographic Range

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; Cuba; Côte d'Ivoire; 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-eastern central; Atlantic-southeast; Atlantic-southwest; Indian Ocean-eastern; Indian Ocean-western; Pacific-eastern central; Pacific-southwest; Pacific-western central

Habitat and Ecology

System: Marine

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