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Euthynnus affinis Kawakawa, Black Skipjack, Bonito

Euthynnus affinisis commonly referred to as Kawakawa, Black Skipjack, Bonito. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
7380 
AphiaID:
219708 
Scientific:
Euthynnus affinis 
German:
Thunfisch 
English:
Kawakawa, Black Skipjack, Bonito 
Category:
Tunas 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scombridae (Family) > Euthynnus (Genus) > affinis (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Cantor, ), 1849 
Occurrence:
Eritrea, Hong Kong, Djibouti, Sudan, (the) Maldives, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, China, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Gulf of Oman / Oman, India, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mozambique, Myanmar, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Réunion , Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tansania, Thailand, the Seychelles, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen 
Size:
up to 39.37" (100 cm) 
Temperature:
71.6 °F - 80.6 °F (22°C - 27°C) 
Food:
Fish (little fishes), Schrimps, Sepia 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for home aquaria! 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2014-07-20 20:09:14 

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(Cantor, 1849)

Synonyms:
Euthunnus affinis affinis (Cantor, 1849)
Euthunnus affinis yaito Kishinouye, 1915
Euthunnus alleteratus affinis (Cantor, 1849)
Euthunnus wallisi (Whitley, 1937)
Euthunnus yaito Kishinouye, 1915
Euthynnus affinis yaito Kishinouye, 1915
Euthynnus alletteratus affinis (Cantor, 1849)
Euthynnus yaito Kishinouye, 1915
Euthynus affinis (Cantor, 1849)
Evrythynnus affinis (Cantor, 1849)
Thynnus affinis Cantor, 1849
Wanderer wallisi Whitley, 1937

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scombridae (Family) > Scombrinae (Subfamily) > Euthynnus (Genus)

Scientific paper

  1. GnRHa-induced spawning of the Eastern little tuna (Euthynnus affinis) in a 70-m3 land-based tank, Yazawa, Ryosuke; Takeuchi, Yutaka; Amezawa, Kotaro; Sato, Kenta; Iwata, Gaku; Kabeya, Naoki; Yoshizaki, Goro , 2015
  2. Euthynnus affinis (little tuna): fishery, bionomics, seasonal elemental variations, health risk assessment and conservational management, Ahmed, Quratulan; Yousuf, Farzana; Sarfraz, Maliha; Mohammad Ali, Qadeer; Balkhour, Mansour; Safi, Sher Zaman; Ashraf, Muhammad Aqeel , 2015
  3. Single genetic stock of kawakawaEuthynnus affinis(Cantor, 1849) along the Indian coast inferred from sequence analyses of mitochondrial DNA D-loop region, Girish Kumar, Swaraj Priyaranjan Kunal, Maria Rosalia Menezes, Ram Murti Meena, 2012
  4. Isolation, characterisation and stability of myoglobin from Eastern little tuna (Euthynnus affinis) dark muscle, Yaowapa Thiansilakul; Soottawat Benjakul; Mark P. Richards, 2011
  5. The effect of Fenton’s reactants and aldehydes on the changes of myoglobin from Eastern little tuna (Euthynnus affinis) dark muscle, Yaowapa Thiansilakul; Soottawat Benjakul; Mark P. Richards, 2011
  6. Temporal and size-related variation in the diet, consumption rate, and daily ration of mackerel tuna (Euthynnus affinis) in neritic waters of eastern Australia, Griffiths, S. P.; Kuhnert, P. M.; Fry, G. F.; Manson, F. J. , 2009
  7. Monogenea of Arabian Gulf fishes: 1. Descriptions of three Capsala spp. (Capsalidae) including Capsala naffari n. sp. infecting mackerel tuna Euthynnus affinis from coasts of Emirates, Mahmoud M Kardousha, 2002
  8. Production and Quality Assessment of a Smoked Tuna (Euthynnus affinis) Product, A. Zotos; D. Petridis; I. Siskos; C. Gougoulias, 2001
  9. Lipids of Three Highly Migratory Fishes: Euthynnus affinis, Sarda orientalis, and Elagatis bipinnulata, SAITO, Hiroaki; YAMASHIRO, Rieko; ISHIHARA, Kenji; XUE, Changhu , 1999
  10. Thermal dependence of contractile properties of single skinned muscle fibres from Antarctic and various warm water marine fishes including Skipjack Tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) and Kawakawa (Euthynnus affinis), Ian A. Johnston; Richard Brill, 1984
  11. A comparative study on certain biochemical aspects of red and white myotomal muscles of the black skipjack tuna,Euthynnus affinisCantor, N Gopinathan Pillai; K M Alexander, 1982
  12. Hydrostatic Equilibrium of Euthynnus affinis, a Pelagic Teleost without a Gas Bladder, John J. Magnuson, 1970
  13. Visual Acuity of Two Tunas, Katsuwonus pelamis and Euthynnus affinis, Eugene L. Nakamura, 1968
  14. Coloration of the Scombrid Fish Euthynnus affinis (Cantor), Eugene L. Nakamura and John J. Magnuson, 1965

External links

  1. FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. Webpage Richard Field (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  4. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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