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
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Katsuwonus pelamis
(Linnaeus, 1758)
.
Skipjack Tuna
. To
108 cm
(
42.5 in
) FL (Kurt Schaefer, pers. comm. to M.L.). Circumglobal (
Collette 2003
); western Pacific Ocean north to
Japan
(Nakabo in
Nakabo 2002
) and southern Kuril Islands (
Savinykh 1998
); near Cordova, Gulf of Alaska (
60°21.2’N
,
146°05.3’W
) (Steve Moffitt, pers. comm. to M.L.) to
Chile
(
Collette and Nauen 1983
), including southern Gulf of California (
Robertson and Allen 2002
) and Islas Galápagos (
Grove and Lavenberg 1997
). Oceanic epipelagic; depth: surface to
596 m
(
1,955 ft
) (
Schaefer and Fuller 2007
).