Thunnus

Also known as tuna, tunafish, tuna fish, tunas, tuna fishes, tunafishes, tunny, tunnies

Thunnus is a genus of ocean-dwelling, ray-finned bony fish from the mackerel family, Scombridae. More specifically, Thunnus is one of five genera which make up the tribe Thunnini – a tribe that is collectively known as the tunas. Also called the true tunas or real tunas, Thunnus consists of eight species of tuna (more than half of the overall tribe), divided into two subgenera.

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Thunnus is a genus of ocean fish in the mackerel family that includes eight species of tuna, making up more than half of all the fish in the tuna tribe. These fish matter because they represent the largest group within the true tunas, a significant category of marine life in ocean ecosystems and human fisheries.

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Species

Thunfisch

Thunnus

GENUS

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassTeleostei
OrderPerciformes
FamilyScombridae

Habitatmarine, brackish

Observations1,114

Observations recorded330,302

Thunnus est un genre de poissons de la famille des Scombridés. Les espèces de ce genre sont communément appelés « thons ». D'autres espèces de la famille des Scombridae ont le même nom vernaculaire.

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taxon name: Thunnus
Commons category: Thunnus
taxon common name: tun

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Their coloring, metallic blue on top and shimmering silver-white on the bottom, helps camouflage them from above and below. Atlantic bluefin tuna, the largest member of this genus, can grow to long and weigh up to . All tunas are extremely strong, muscular swimmers, and the yellowfin tuna is known to reach speeds of up to when pursuing prey. As with all tunas, members of this genus are warm-blooded, which is a rare trait among fish; this enables them to tolerate cold waters and to dive to deeper depths. Bluefin tunas, for example, are found in Newfoundland and Iceland, and also in the tropical waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea, where some individuals go each year to spawn.