Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Author Love, Milton S. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu Author Bizzarro, Joseph J. 0000-0002-2412-9357 joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov Author Cornthwaite, Maria 0000-0002-1528-3272 maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Author Frable, Benjamin W. 0000-0003-4525-0671 bfrable@ucsd.edu Author Maslenikov, Katherine P. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 Thunnus alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788) . Albacore . To 152 cm ( 5 ft ) TL ( Foreman 1980 ). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan ( Collette and Nauen 1983 ), and southern Kuril Islands ( Savinykh 1998 ); northern and eastern Gulf of Alaska ( Karinen et al. 1985 , Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Chile ( Foreman 1980 ), including Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997 ), and Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2015 ). Oceanic epipelagic and mesopelagic; depth: surface to 1,185 m ( 3,887 ft ) ( Childers et al. 2011 ).