Thunnus albacares Allison's Tuna, Pacific Long-tailed Tuna, Yellowfinned Albacore, Yellowfin Tuna

Thunnus albacares is commonly referred to as Allison's Tuna, Pacific Long-tailed Tuna, Yellowfinned Albacore, Yellowfin Tuna. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. A aquarium size of at least 100000 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

3806 

AphiaID:

127027 

Scientific:

Thunnus albacares 

German:

Gelbflossen-Thun 

English:

Allison's Tuna, Pacific Long-tailed Tuna, Yellowfinned Albacore, Yellowfin Tuna 

Category:

 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scombridae (Family) > Thunnus (Genus) > albacares (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Bonnaterre, ), 1788 

Occurrence:

West Sahara, Benin, Guadeloupe, Gambia, Suriname, Kuwait, Barbados, Hong Kong, El Salvador, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, Ghana, Djibouti, Cocos Island (Costa Rica), (the) Maldives, American Samoa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Australia, Azores, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bass Strait, Belize, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Cameroon, Canada Eastern Pacific, Central Atlantic, Chile, China, Christmas Islands, Circumtropic, Columbia, Comores, Congo, Cook Islands, Coral sea (Eastern Australia), Corea, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Africa, East-Atlantic Ocean, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Eastern Indian Ocean, Eastern Pacific Ocean, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Galapagos Islands, Grenada, Guam, Gulf of California, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Guyana, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Iran, Jamaica, Japan, Johnston Atoll, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Lord Howe Island, Madagascar, Madeira, Malaysia, Marquesas Islands, Martinique, Micronesia, Midway Islands, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, North Pacific (Ocean), Northeast Pacific Ocean, Northern Mariana Islands, Northern Territory (Australia), Ogasawara Islands, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Quatar, Queensland (Australia), Red Sea, Réunion , Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé e Principé, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Atlantic, South Australia, South-Africa, South-Pazific, Spain, Tahiti, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, The Bahamas, the British Isles, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Kermadec Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, The Ryukyu Islands, the Seychelles, the Society Islands, Timor, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuamoto Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Uruguay, USA, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, U.S., Wake Atoll, Wallis and Futuna, West Africa, West-Atlantic Ocean, Western Australia, Western Indian Ocean, Western Pacific Ocean, Yemen 

Sea depth:

1 - 464 Meter 

Size:

59.06" - 94.49" (150cm - 240cm) 

Weight:

200 kg 

Temperature:

59 °F - 87.8 °F (15°C - 31°C) 

Food:

Crustaceans, Fish (little fishes), Sepia 

Tank:

21997.84 gal (~ 100000L)  

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Near threatened (NT) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Thunnus alalunga
• 
  Thunnus albacares
  Gelbflossen-Thun
• Thunnus atlanticus
• Thunnus maccoyii
• 
  Thunnus obesus
  Großaugen-Thun
• 
  Thunnus orientalis
  Nordpazifischer Blauflossen-Thunfisch
• 
  Thunnus thynnus
  Blauflossen-Thunfisch, Roter Thunfisch
• 
  Thunnus tonggol
  Thunfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2011-08-05 08:16:34 

Last edit:

2019-09-07 15:48:02 

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