Thunnus obesus

(1954: chart 3); reported as Parathunnus mebachi by Munro (1958: 264). Specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004 – 2005. A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District by Dean Tully in Sept. 2015.

Sumber: Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, in the western Pacific south to northern New Zealand. Oceanic, pelagic, 0 – 250 m depth. Marine.

Sumber: Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records

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).

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