Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Scombridae > Euthynnus > Euthynnus affinis

Euthynnus affinis (Yaito bonito; Wavy-back skipjack; Oceanic bonito; Mackerel tuna; Little tunny; Little tuna; Lesser bonito; Kawakawa; Kawa kawa; Island skipjack; Island bonito; False albacore; Eastern little tuna; Dwarf bonito; Diverg-bonito; Bonito; Black skipjack tuna; Black skipjack; Tuna)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Euthynnus affinis, the kawakawa or mackerel tuna, is a species of ray-finned bony fish in the family Scombridae, or mackerel family. It belongs to the tribe Thunnini, better known as the tunas.
View Wikipedia Record: Euthynnus affinis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  16.976 lbs (7.70 kg)
Maximum Longevity [3]  10 years
Migration [2]  Oceanodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Tsitsikamma National Park II 34343 Southern Cape, South Africa  
Ujung Kulon National Park II 313466 Java, Indonesia    

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Lutjanus gibbus (red snapper)1
Sarda orientalis (Striped tuna)2
Saurida tumbil (Greater lizardfish)2
Scomberomorus commerson (Striped seer)1

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Riede, 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
♦ 3Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
♦ 5Studies on the Food of Euthynnus affinis affinis (Cantor), Auxis thazard (Lacepede), Auxis thynnoides Bleeker and Sarda orientalis (Temminck and Schlegel), M. Kumaran, Symposium on Scombroid Fishes, 1962, Marine Biological Association of India, p. 599-606
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 7Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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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