WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Scomber alalunga Cetti, 1777) Cetti, F. (1777). Anfibi e pesci di Sardegna. <em>Vol. 3 of Storia naturale di Sardegna. G. Piatoli. Sassari.</em> 1774-1777. i-viii (unnumbered) + 1-208, 5 pls. [A German edition, entitled Naturgeschichte von Sardinien, was published in Leipzig between 1783-84.]. page(s): 191, Pl. (opposite p. 28) [details]
original description
(of Scomber alalunga Bonnaterre, 1788) Bonnaterre, J. P. (1788). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie. <em>Panckoucke, Paris.</em> i-lvi + 1-215, Pls. A-B. 1-100., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=Z67NZ0_oObYC&pg=PR1 page(s): 139 [details]
original description
(of Scomber albicans Walbaum, 1792) Walbaum, J. J. (1792). Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis. Redactis speciebus 242 ad genera 52. Ichthyologiae pars III. <em>Ant. Ferdin. Rose, Grypeswaldiae [Greifswald].</em> Part 3: [i-viii] + 1-723, Pls. 1-3. page(s): 216 [details]
original description
(of Scomber germo Lacepède, 1801) Lacepède, B.G.E. (1801). Histoire naturelle des poissons. 3: i-lxvi + 1-558, Pls. 1-34. page(s): 1 [details]
original description
(of Scomber germo Bennett, 1840) Bennett, F. D. (1840). Narrative of a whaling voyage round the globe, from the year 1833 to 1836. <em>R. Bentley, London.</em> v. 2: i-vii + 1-395. [details]
original description
(of Scomber germon Lacepède, 1800) Lacepède, B. G. E. (1800). Histoire naturelle des poissons. v. 2: i-lxiv + 1-632, Pls. 1-20. page(s): 1 [details]
original description
(of Thynnus pacificus Cuvier, 1832) Cuvier, G. ; Valenciennes, A. (1832). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome huitième. Livre neuvième. Des Scombéroïdes. v. 8: i-xix + 5 pp. + 1-509, Pls. 209-245. [Cuvier authored pp. 1-470; Valenciennes 471-509. Date of 1831 on title page. i-xv + 1-375 in Strasbourg edition.]. page(s): 133 [details]
original description
(of Orcynus pacificus Cooper, 1863) Cooper, J. G. (1863). On new genera and species of California fishes - No. I. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 1).</em> v. 3 (sig. 5): 70-77. page(s): 75, Fig. 19 [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (Bermuda)
Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys
(American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4)
. ASIH, 424 pp. [details]
basis of record
van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Fonteneau, A. (1997). Atlas of tropical tuna fisheries. World catches and environment. <em>ORSTOM.</em> 1-192. [details]
additional source
Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details]
additional source
King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details]
additional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Bonnaterre, J. P. (1788). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie. <em>Panckoucke, Paris.</em> i-lvi + 1-215, Pls. A-B. 1-100., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=Z67NZ0_oObYC&pg=PR1 page(s): 139 [details]
additional source
Wheeler, A. (1992). A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. <i>J. Fish Biol. 41(Suppl. A)</i>: 1-37 (look up in IMIS) page(s): 139 [details]
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]
From other sources
Description Found in offshore waters (Ref. 9340). Abundant in surface and deeper waters of 9.5° to 25.2°C forming mixed schools with skipjack tuna, yellowfin tuna and bluefin tuna. May tolerate lowered temperatures up to 9.5°C for short periods (Ref. 9340). Known to concentrate along thermal discontinuities. Schools may be associated with floating objects, including sargassum weeds. Feeds on fishes, crustaceans and squids. Also caught by trolling (Ref. 9684). Highly appreciated and marketed fresh, smoked, deep frozen or canned. Eaten steamed, broiled, fried and microwaved (Ref. 9987). [details]
Diet Feed on fishes, crustaceans and squids [details]
Distribution cosmopolitan in tropical and temperate waters of all oceans [details]
Habitat An epi- and mesopelagic, oceanic species, abundant in surface waters of 15.6° to 19.4°C; deeper swimming, large albacore are found in waters of 13.5° to 25.2°C; temperatures as low as 9.5°C may be tolerated for short periods. [details]
Habitat nektonic [details]
Language | Name | |
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Basque |
hegaluze |
[details] |
Breton |
toun gwenjermon |
[details] |
Catalan |
ulladatonyina d'ulls grossostonyina blancabacora |
[details] |
Dutch |
witte tonijn |
[details] |
English |
long-fin tunnylong-fin tunaAlbacore [from synonym]albacore |
[details] |
Finnish |
valkotonnikala |
[details] |
French |
thon blancgermon |
[details] |
Galician |
bonito do norteatún branco |
[details] |
German |
weiszer Thunweißer Thunfischweisser Thunfischweißer ThunLangflossenthun [from synonym] |
[details] |
Hebrew |
טונה אלבקור [from synonym] |
[details] |
Italian |
alalunga Brauner |
[details] |
Japanese |
ビンナガ |
[details] |
Lithuanian |
ilgapelekis tunas [from synonym] |
[details] |
Modern Greek (1453-) |
Μακρύπτερος τόννος [from synonym] |
[details] |
Norwegian |
albakor |
[details] |
Polish |
tuńczyk długopłetwy [from synonym]tuńczyk biały [from synonym]albakora [from synonym] |
[details] |
Portuguese |
voador |
[details] |
Russian |
тунец-альбакор [from synonym]длиннопёрый тунец [from synonym]Длинноперый тунец [from synonym] |
[details] |
Slovenian |
dolgoplavuti tun [from synonym] |
[details] |
Spanish |
bonito del norteatún blancoalbacora |
[details] |
Swedish |
långfenad tonfiskalbakore |
[details] |
Turkish |
beyaz ton baligibeyaz orkinos [from synonym] |
[details] |
Ukrainian |
тунець довгоперий [from synonym]альбакор [from synonym] |
[details] |
Welsh |
tiwna asgell-hir [from synonym] |
[details] |
To Barcode of Life (218 barcodes)
To Barcode of Life (218 barcodes) (from synonym Thunnus alalunga (Cetti, 1777))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Orcynus germon (Lacepède, 1800))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Thunnus pacificus (Cuvier, 1832))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Scomber germon Lacepède, 1800)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Orcynus pacificus Cooper, 1863)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Thunnus alalonga (Bonnaterre, 1788))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Germo germon steadi Whitley, 1933)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Germo alalonga (Bonnaterre, 1788))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) (from synonym Thynnus pacificus Cuvier, 1832)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications) (from synonym Thunnus germo (Lacepède, 1801))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications) (from synonym Scomber alalunga Cetti, 1777)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications) (from synonym Scomber alalunga Bonnaterre, 1788)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications) (from synonym Scomber germo Bennett, 1840)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications) (from synonym Scomber germo Lacepède, 1801)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) (from synonym Scomber alatunga Gmelin, 1789)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications) (from synonym Orcynus germo (Lacepède, 1801))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (39 publications) (from synonym Germo germo (Lacepède, 1801))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (69 publications) (from synonym Orcynus alalonga (Bonnaterre, 1788))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Germo germon (Lacepède, 1800))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Orcynus alatunga (Gmelin, 1789))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (70 publications) (from synonym Thunnus alalunga (Cetti, 1777))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (70 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Scomber albicans Walbaum, 1792)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Albacora alalonga (Bonnaterre, 1788))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Thynnus alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (94 publications) (from synonym Germo alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (97 publications) (from synonym Thynnus alalonga (Bonnaterre, 1788))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Thunnus alalunga)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Thunnus alalunga) (from synonym Thunnus alalunga (Cetti, 1777))
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Scomber alalunga Cetti, 1777)
To FishBase (from synonym Scomber alalunga Bonnaterre, 1788)
To FishBase (from synonym Scomber albicans Walbaum, 1792)
To FishBase (from synonym Scomber alatunga Gmelin, 1789)
To FishBase (from synonym Germo germo (Lacepède, 1801))
To FishBase (from synonym Thunnus pacificus (Cuvier, 1832))
To FishBase (from synonym Germo alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788))
To FishBase (from synonym Scomber germo Lacepède, 1801)
To FishBase (from synonym Scomber germo Bennett, 1840)
To FishBase (from synonym Scomber germon Lacepède, 1800)
To FishBase (from synonym Thunnus germo (Lacepède, 1801))
To FishBase (from synonym Thunnus alalonga (Bonnaterre, 1788))
To FishBase (from synonym Thunnus alalunga (Cetti, 1777))
To FishBase (from synonym Germo alalonga (Bonnaterre, 1788))
To FishBase (from synonym Thynnus alalonga (Bonnaterre, 1788))
To FishBase (from synonym Albacora alalonga (Bonnaterre, 1788))
To FishBase (from synonym Orcynus alalonga (Bonnaterre, 1788))
To FishBase (from synonym Thynnus pacificus Cuvier, 1832)
To FishBase (from synonym Germo germon steadi Whitley, 1933)
To FishBase (from synonym Thynnus alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788))
To FishBase (from synonym Orcynus pacificus Cooper, 1863)
To FishBase (from synonym Orcynus germo (Lacepède, 1801))
To FishBase (from synonym Orcynus germon (Lacepède, 1800))
To FishBase (from synonym Orcynus alatunga (Gmelin, 1789))
To FishBase (from synonym Germo germon (Lacepède, 1800))
To FishBase images (Thunnus alalunga, by Archambault, C.)
To GenBank (1144 nucleotides; 461 proteins) (from synonym Germo alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788))
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) (from synonym Thunnus alalunga (Cetti, 1777))
To PESI (from synonym Thunnus alalunga (Cetti, 1777))
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Scomber alalunga Bonnaterre, 1788)
To ITIS
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