Bigeye tuna

Bigeye tuna
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Scombriformes
Family:	Scombridae
Genus:	Thunnus
Subgenus:	Thunnus
Species:	T. obesus
Binomial name
Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839)
Synonyms[2][3]
Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) Thynnus obesus Lowe, 1839 Germogus obesus (Lowe, 1839) Neothunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) Parathunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) Thynnus sibi Temminck & Schlegel, 1844 Germo sibi (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844) Orcynus sibi (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844) Parathunnus sibi (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844) Thunnus sibi (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844) Thunnus mebachi Kishinouye, 1915 Parathunnus mebachi (Kishinouye, 1915)

The bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) is a species of true tuna of the genus Thunnus, belonging to the wider mackerel family Scombridae. In Hawaiian, it is one of two species known as ʻahi, the other being the yellowfin tuna.^[4] Bigeye tuna are found in the open waters of all tropical and temperate oceans, but not in the Mediterranean Sea.