Thunnus obesus
– Vulnerable
Taxonomy
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Kingdom:
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ANIMALIA
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Phylum:
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CHORDATA
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Class:
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ACTINOPTERYGII
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Order:
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PERCIFORMES
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Family:
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SCOMBRIDAE
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Scientific Name:
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Thunnus obesus
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Species Authority:
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(Lowe, 1839)
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Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:
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See Thunnus obesus (Pacific stock)
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Common Name/s:
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BIGEYE TUNA (Eng)
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Assessment Information
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Red List Category & Criteria:
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VU A1bd ver 2.3 (1994)
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Year Assessed:
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1996
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Annotations:
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Needs updating
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Assessor/s:
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Uozumi, Y.
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Geographic Range
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Countries:
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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; Cuba; Côte d'Ivoire; 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
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FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
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Native:
Atlantic-eastern central; Atlantic-southeast; Atlantic-southwest; Atlantic-western central; Indian Ocean-eastern; Indian Ocean-western; Pacific-eastern central; Pacific-northwest; Pacific-southeast; Pacific-southwest; Pacific-western central
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Habitat and Ecology
