Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus 1758)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Scombridae
- genus
- Katsuwonus
- species
- Katsuwonus pelamis
description
Skipjack Tuna. To 108 cm (42.5 in) FL (Kurt Schaefer, pers. comm. to M. L.). Circumglobal (Collette 2003); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002) and southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); near Cordova, Gulf of Alaska (60 ° 21.2 ’ N, 146 ° 05.3 ’ W) (Steve Moffitt, pers. comm. to M. L.) to Chile (Collette and Nauen 1983), including southern Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Oceanic epipelagic; depth: surface to 596 m (1,955 ft) (Schaefer and Fuller 2007).
Name
- Homonyms
- Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus 1758)