bluefin tuna
English
Noun
bluefin tuna (usually uncountable, plural bluefin tunas)
- Any member of genus Thunnus of tuna, having blue fins, including:
- 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
- The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […] But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.
- Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), found in both the western and eastern Atlantic Ocean, and also
in the Mediterranean Sea. - longtail tuna (Thunnus tonggol), found in tropical Indo-West Pacific waters.
- Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis), found widely in the northern Pacific Ocean and locally in the south.
- southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii).
Synonyms
- (Atlantic bluefin tuna): northern bluefin tuna
- (longtail tuna): northern bluefin tuna (Australia)
- (Pacific bluefin tuna): northern bluefin tuna
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Further reading
- Thunnus thynnus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Thunnus tonggol on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Thunnus orientalis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Thunnus maccoyii on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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