Auxis rochei

Distribution. Circumglobal in tropical through temperate seas (including western Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Persian Gulf, South China Sea), but not eastern Pacific. Conservation. IUCN: Global (LC: 17 September 2010); Med. (LC: 15 November 2007). Capture and threats: FIT, FIB, Unknown. Occurrence: Common. Low priority for conservation action.

Sumber: The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status

Common names on the specimen (Portuguese / Tupi): “ Bonito ” / “ Curuatá pinima ”.

Sumber: The fish collection of José Mariano da Conceição Veloso (1742 - 1811) and the beginning of ichthyological research in Brazil, with a taxonomic description of the extant specimens

Bullet Tuna. To 55 cm (21.6 in) TL (Nakamura in Masuda et al. 1984). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); between Halfmoon Bay and San Francisco, central California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California) to northern Chile (Pequeño 1997), including Gulf of California (Collette in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Neritic and oceanic epipelagic; depth: surface to 200 m (656 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002). The eastern Pacific form is recognized as the subspecies Auxis rochei eudorax Collette and Aadland 1996 (Collette 2003).

Sumber: Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico