Little Tunny

Euthynnus affinis (Cantor 1849)

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Euthynnus affinis (Little Tunny) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family mackerels. Individuals are known to live for 10 years and can grow to 100.0 cm.

EOL has data for 24 attributes, including:

parasitized by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002445
- Comment: Auto-added during harvest #37. A human needs to edit this.
- Attribution: Global Biotic Interactions
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Euthynnus affinis (Cantor 1849) (Little tunny)
body mass
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VT_0001259
- Definition: The amount of matter in the body of an organism.
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14.0 kg
body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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100 cm
fork length
- URI: http://purl.org/obo/owlATOL_0001658
- Definition: length of a fish from the tip of the snout to the end of the middle caudal fin rays
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100.0 cm
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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New Caledonia
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/2139685
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habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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pelagic zone
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000208
- Definition: An open ocean region.
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has ectoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002633
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Euthynnus affinis (Cantor 1849) (Little tunny)
has endoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002635
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Euthynnus affinis (Cantor 1849) (Little tunny)
population trend
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/population_trend
- Definition: i.e., increasing, decreasing, stable, or unknown
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Unknown
total life span
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VT_0001661
- Definition: The full period of time from birth to death of an organism.
- Comment: Ontology Description: http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/VT
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10 years
water temperature
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeawaterTemperature
- Definition: Temperature of the water at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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28.954 degrees celsius
weight
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0000128
- Definition: A physical quality inhering in a bearer that has mass near a gravitational body.
- Comment: Ontology Description: http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/PATO Ontology Source: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/pato.owl
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7700 g

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Little tunny. View this species on GBIF

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