Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839)
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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609759 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6-FF42-FF66-98EA-F98CFBB03774 |
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Plazi |
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Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) |
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Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) View in CoL .
Bigeye Tuna. To 236 cm ( 7.7 ft) FL (Kurt Schaefer, pers. comm. to M.L.). The 250 cm ( 8.2 ft) TL record of Nakamura in Masuda et al. (1984) is likely in error (Kurt Schaefer, pers. comm.). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan ( Collette and Nauen 1983), and southern Kuril Islands ( Parin 2003); Iron Springs, central Washington ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to Chile ( Pequeño 1989), including Islas Galápagos ( Miller and Lea 1972); apparently not in Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2002). Oceanic epipelagic and mesopelagic; depth: surface to 1,902 m ( 6,239 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Schaefer and Fuller 2010).
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