Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788)

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 albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) .

Yellowfin Tuna. To 206 cm (6.8 ft) FL (Kurt Schaefer, pers. comm. to M.L.) Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Collete and Nauen 1983), and southern Kuril Islands ( Savinykh 1998); one apparently newly dead specimen found on a beach near Tsiu River, Gulf of Alaska (Leon Shaul, pers. comm. to M.L.; specimen’s identity confirmed through a photograph by Kurt Schaefer); also eastern North Pacific at 50°00’N, 150°02’W ( Larkins 1964, Mecklenburg et al. 2002), and Morro Bay, central California ( Squire 1987) to Chile ( Miller and Lea 1972), including Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2015), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Oceanic epipelagic; depth: surface to 1,602 m (5,255 ft) ( Schaefer et al. 2014).