WoRMS taxon details
Thunnus tonggol (Bleeker, 1851)
AphiaID: 219722
AphiaID: 219722
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scombridae (Family) > Scombrinae (Subfamily) > Thunnus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Thunnus South, 1845 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Kishinoella rara (Kishinouye, 1915) Kishinoella tonggol (Bleeker, 1851) Neothunnus rarus (Kishinouye, 1915) Neothunnus tonggol (Bleeker, 1851) Thunnus nicolsoni Whitley, 1936 Thunnus rarus Kishinouye, 1915 Thynnus tonggol Bleeker, 1851 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Somalia [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Pseudocycnus appendiculatus Heller, 1865 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (21 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Species fact sheets To FishBase To GenBank (64 nucleotides; 94 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Predominantly neritic species avoiding very turbid waters and areas with reduced salinity such as estuaries. May form schools of varying size. Feeds on a variety of fishes, cephalopods, and crustaceans, particularly stomatopod larvae and prawns (Ref. 9684). Marketed mainly fresh and dried salted (Ref. 9684), but also smoked, canned and frozen (Ref. 9987). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219722 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Thunnus tonggol (Bleeker, 1851). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219722 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||||||||
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