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Yellowfin Tuna
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Other fish (coast and sea)

Yellowfin Tuna

Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788)

LC Least ConcernOn Suriname's list of threatened fauna

Names

EnglishYellowfin Tuna
DutchGeelvintonijn
SpanishAtún de aleta amarilla
Chinese黄鳍金枪鱼
Scientific nameThunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788)

About this species

The yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) is a species of tuna found in pelagic waters of tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide.

Yellowfin is often marketed as ahi, from the Hawaiian ʻahi, a name also used there for the closely related bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus). The species name, albacares ("white meat") can also lead to confusion: in English, the albacore (Thunnus alalunga) is a different species, while yellowfin is officially designated albacore in French and referred to as albacora by Portuguese fishermen.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
OrderPerciformes
FamilyScombridae
GenusThunnus

Related species in Suriname