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Auxis rochei (bonitou)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The bullet tuna, Auxis rochei rochei, is a subspecies of tuna, in the family Scombridae, found circumglobally in tropical oceans in open surface waters to depths of 50 m (164 ft). Its maximum length is 50.0 cm.(20 inches) Sometimes called bullet mackerel, the bullet tuna is a comparatively small and slender tuna. It has a triangular first dorsal fin, widely separated from the second dorsal fin, which, like the anal and pectoral fins, is relatively small. There are the usual finlets of the tuna. There is a small corselet of small scales around the pectoral region of the body.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Archipelago de Colon Biosphere Reserve 34336011 Galapagos Islands, Ecuador  
Ses Salines d'Eivissa i Formentera 40611 Spain  

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Auxis rochei (bonitou)[3]
Balaenoptera edeni (Bryde's whale)[3]
Carcharodon carcharias (Maneater shark)[3]
Makaira nigricans (Ocean guard)[4]

Consumers

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 2"Feeding habits of the bullet tuna Auxis rochei in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea", E. Mostarda, D. Campo, L. Castriota, V. Esposito, M.P. Scarabello and F. Andaloro, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 87 / Issue 04 / August 2007, pp 1007-1012
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Diet of the blue marlin, Makaira nigricans, off the south coast of Portugal, Pedro Veiga, JoseĢ Xavier, Carlos Assis and Karim Erzini
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0