Thunnus thynnus

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Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

ACTINOPTERYGII

Order:

PERCIFORMES

Family:

SCOMBRIDAE

Scientific Name:

Thunnus thynnus

Species Authority:

Linneaus, 1758

Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:

See Thunnus thynnus (Eastern Atlantic stock)

See Thunnus thynnus (Western Atlantic stock)

Common Name/s:

English

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NORTHERN BLUEFIN TUNA

Assessment Information

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

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

Albania; Algeria; Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Aruba; Bahamas; Barbados; Belgium; Belize; Bermuda; Brazil; Bulgaria; Canada (Newfoundland); Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Cyprus; Denmark; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Egypt; France; French Guiana; Georgia; Germany; Gibraltar; Greece; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Guernsey; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Iceland; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Jamaica; Jersey; Latvia; Lebanon; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Lithuania; Malta; Martinique; Mauritania; Mexico; Monaco; Montenegro; Montserrat; Morocco; Namibia; Netherlands; Nicaragua; Norway; Panama; Poland; Portugal (Azores, Madeira); Puerto Rico; Romania; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; South Africa; Spain (Canary Is.); Suriname; Sweden; Syrian Arab Republic; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; Turkey; Turks and Caicos Islands; Ukraine; United Kingdom (Great Britain, Northern Ireland); United States; Venezuela; Virgin Islands, British; Virgin Islands, U.S.

Uncertain presence and origin:

Estonia; Taiwan, Province of China

FAO Marine Fishing Areas:

Native:

Atlantic-eastern central; Atlantic-northeast; Atlantic-northwest; Atlantic-southwest; Atlantic-western central; Mediterranean and Black Sea; Pacific-eastern central; Pacific-northwest

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Marine

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