Thunnus - Tunas
Description
Thunnus is a genus of ocean-dwelling, ray-finned bony fish from the mackerel family, Scombridae. More specifically, Thunnus is one of five genera which make up the tribe Thunnini – a tribe that is collectively known as the tunas. Also called the true tunas or real tunas, Thunnus consists of eight species of tuna (more than half of the overall tribe), divided into two subgenera.
This genus has eight species:
- Albacore, T. alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788)
- Southern bluefin tuna, T. maccoyii (Castelnau, 1872)
- Bigeye tuna, T. obesus (Lowe, 1839)
- Pacific bluefin tuna, T. orientalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844)
- Atlantic bluefin tuna, T. thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Yellowfin tuna, T. albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788)
- Blackfin tuna, T. atlanticus (Lesson, 1831)
- Longtail tuna, T. tonggol (Bleeker, 1851)
