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Species Name:    Euthynnus alletteratus
Common Name:                 (Little Tunny)

 

I.  TAXONOMY

Kingdom Phylum/Division: Class: Order: Family: Genus:
Animalia Chordata Osteichthyes Perciformes Scombridae Euthynnus


The Little Tunny, Euthynnus alletteratus.  Illustration by Diana Rome Peebles 1998.  Courtesy of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Division of Marine Fisheries.

 


 Species Name:
Euthynnus alletteratus (Rafinesque, 1810)

Common Name:
Little tunny, false albacore

Synonymy:
Scomber alletteratus
Scomber quadripunctatus
Thynnus leachianus
Thynnus thunina
Euthynnus quadripunctatus