Thunnus orientalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844)

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 : 212

Thunnus orientalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844) .

Pacific Bluefin Tuna. To 271 cm (8.9 ft) FL ( Foreman and Ishizuka 1990). Western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002), southern Kuril Islands ( Savinykh 1998), and southern Sea of Okhotsk; Shelikof Strait, Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to just inside southwest corner of Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2015). Oceanic epipelagic; depth: surface to 1,426 m (4,677 ft) (Kurt Schaefer, pers. comm. to M.L.). Previously considered a subspecies of Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758) , raised to full species status by Collette (1999). The size of more than 3 m (10 ft) FL and weight of about 680 kg given by Mecklenburg et al. (2002), after Collette and Nauen (1983), pertains to the Atlantic species, T. thynnus .