Albacore
Thunnus alalunga
CommonFishcarnivore
The albacore tuna is a sleek, silvery-blue fish with unusually long front fins. It roams warm and mild ocean waters around the world, often swimming in the sunlit upper layers or twilight mid-depths. Its streamlined body helps it cruise through open waters across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.
- Its pectoral fins can stretch nearly a third of its body length.
- Albacore tuna grow up to 1.4 meters long.
- Six separate populations exist worldwide, including in the Mediterranean.
OceanWorldwide
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- Classification
- Fish
- Scientific name
- Thunnus alalunga
- Habitat
- Ocean
- Regions in this directory
- Worldwide
- Diet
- carnivore
- Relative size
- large
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern (LC)