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In fact, tuna can maintain the temperature of their muscles at 5–20 °C (9–36 °F) above the temperature of surrounding water. [31] Overall, tuna do not have a set body temperature point; rather it maintains its T B within a narrow range, with variations of only 4–5 °C (7–9 °F) over time and from individual to individual. [31] [32]
A tuna (pl.: tunas or tuna) is a saltwater fish that belongs to the tribe Thunnini, a subgrouping of the Scombridae family.The Thunnini comprise 15 species across five genera, [2] the sizes of which vary greatly, ranging from the bullet tuna (max length: 50 cm or 1.6 ft, weight: 1.8 kg or 4 lb) up to the Atlantic bluefin tuna (max length: 4.6 m or 15 ft, weight: 684 kg or 1,508 lb), which ...
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 . [ 3 ]
Thunnus tonggol is a species of tuna of tropical Indo-West Pacific waters.. It is commonly known as the longtail tuna [1] or northern bluefin tuna. [4] [5] The usage of the latter name, mainly in Australia to distinguish it from the southern bluefin tuna, leads to easy confusion with Thunnus thynnus of the Atlantic and Thunnus orientalis of the North Pacific.
The word Thunnus is the Middle Latin form of the Greek thýnnos (θύννος, "tuna, tunny") – which is in turn derived from thynō (θύνω, "to rush; to dart"). [5] [6] The first written use of the word was by Homer.
Black skipjack tuna E. lineatus (Kishinouye, 1920) 84 cm 2.8 ft 60 cm 2.0 ft 11.8 kg 26 lb 3.83 [5] [6] Least concern [6] See also. List of prehistoric bony fish;
Global capture production of Kawakawa (Euthynnus affinis) in thousand tonnes from 1950 to 2022, as reported by the FAO [3]Euthynnus affinis, the mackerel tuna, little tuna, eastern little tuna, wavyback skipjack tuna, kawakawa, or tongkol komo is a species of ray-finned bony fish in the family Scombridae, or mackerel family.
The Atlantic bluefin tuna is a close relative of one of the other two bluefin tuna species, the Pacific bluefin tuna. The southern bluefin tuna, on the other hand, is more closely related to other tuna species such as yellowfin tuna and bigeye tuna, and the similarities between the southern and northern species are due to convergent evolution. [3]