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 obesus (Lowe, 1839) . Bigeye Tuna . To 236 cm ( 7.7 ft ) FL (Kurt Schaefer, pers. comm. to M.L.). The 250 cm ( 8.2 ft ) TL record of Nakamura in Masuda et al. (1984) is likely in error (Kurt Schaefer, pers. comm.). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan ( Collette and Nauen 1983 ), and southern Kuril Islands ( Parin 2003 ); Iron Springs, central Washington ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983 ) to Chile ( Pequeño 1989 ), including Islas Galápagos ( Miller and Lea 1972 ); apparently not in Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2002 ). Oceanic epipelagic and mesopelagic; depth: surface to 1,902 m ( 6,239 ft ) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983 ; max.: Schaefer and Fuller 2010 ).