Auxis thazard (Lacepède, 1800)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 211

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609737

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6-FF43-FF67-98EA-FBCDF85C3550

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Auxis thazard (Lacepède, 1800)
status

 

Auxis thazard (Lacepède, 1800) View in CoL .

Frigate Tuna. To 61 cm (24 in) TL ( Miller and Lea 1972). Circumglobal; Huntington Beach (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California), and Santa Catalina Island, southern California to Chile ( Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2015) and Islas Galápagos ( Miller and Lea 1972). The record of this species from the southern Kuril Islands in Savinykh (1998) appears to be in error and was changed to Auxis rochei in Parin (2003). Neritic and oceanic epipelagic; depth: surface to 200 m (656 ft) ( Robertson and Allen 2002). The eastern Pacific form is recognized as the subspecies Auxis thazard brachydorax Collette and Aadland 1996 ( Collette 2003) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Scombridae

Genus

Auxis

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