Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Scombridae > Gymnosarda > Gymnosarda unicolor

Gymnosarda unicolor (Whiteflesh tuna; White tuna; Tunny; Scaleless tuna; Ruppel's bonito; Pegtooth tuna; Jackass; Greek brown moray; Dogtooth-tuna; Dogtooth unicolor; Dogtooth tuna; Dog tuna; Dog teeth; Bonito; Tuna)

Synonyms: Gymnosarda nuda; Pelamys nuda; Scomber vau; Thynnus unicolor
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Wikipedia Abstract

Gymnosarda unicolor, commonly known as the Dogtooth tuna or White tuna, is a species of pelagic marine fish which belongs to the family Scombridae.
View Wikipedia Record: Gymnosarda unicolor

Attributes

Migration [2]  Oceanodromous
Water Biome [1]  Pelagic, Reef, Coastal
Diet [1]  Carnivore

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    

Prey / Diet

Chelidonichthys kumu (bluefin searobin)[3]
Decapterus punctatus (Summer stonebrass)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Pseudotobothrium dipsacum[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 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
♦ 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.
♦ 4Gibson, 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