thynnus, Scomber Linnaeus [C.] 1758:297 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Pelagic, between the tropics. No types known. Misspelled thinnus in early literature. Neotype designated by Fricke 1999:49 [ref. 24101], but withdrawn in Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. •Valid as Orcynus thynnus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Herrera 1896:45 [ref. 39336]). •Valid as Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Brock 1938:98 [ref. 41493], Talbot & Penrith 1968:10 [ref. 41089], Postel 1973:467 [ref. 7208], Gibbs & Collette 1967:116 [ref. 13640], Collette & Nauen 1983:88 [ref. 5375], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:275 [ref. 9277], Nakamura in Masuda et al. 1984:226 [ref. 6441], Collette in Whitehead et al. 1986:997 [ref. 13676], Collette 1986:838 [ref. 5647], Robins & Ray 1986:263 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:459 [ref. 25518], Pequeño 1989:67 [ref. 14125], McAllister 1990:180 [ref. 14674], Collette 1990:995 [ref. 19476], Cervigón 1992:419 [ref. 23827], Allen & Robertson 1994:278 [ref. 22193], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:274 [ref. 24545], Santos et al. 1997:109 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:102 [ref. 24952], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:398 [ref. 24555], Collette 1999:163 [ref. 23936], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:334 [ref. 25013], Johnson 1999:751 [ref. 25471], Fricke 1999:49 [ref. 24101], Nakabo 2000:1349 [ref. 25182], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:40 [ref. 25650], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:169 [ref. 27754], Kolpakov & Barabanshchikov 2001:423 [ref. 25413], Collette et al. 2001:3 [ref. 25629], Hutchins 2001:45 [ref. 25847], Collette in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:531 [ref. 26158], Nakabo 2002:1349 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:418, 675 [ref. 26218], Alvarez-León 2002:228 [ref. 26373], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:145 [ref. 26753], Roe et al. 2002:903 [ref. 26504], Collette 2003:1857 [ref. 27087], Collette 2003:14 [ref. 27312], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:103 [ref. 27192], Parin 2003:S30 [ref. 28536] with subspecies, Nelson et al. 2004:176 [ref. 27807], Golani 2005:61 [ref. 37112], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:788 [ref. 28815], Fricke 2007:25 [ref. 30577], Fricke et al. 2007:111 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:182 [ref. 30517], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:173 [ref. 31251], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:70 [ref. 36649], Møller et al. 2010:68 [ref. 31169], Page et al. 2013:182 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Collette 2013:182 [ref. 32953], Wirtz et al. 2014:11 [ref. 33516], Parin et al. 2014:516 [ref. 33547], Collette in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2914 [ref. 34618], Nión et al. 2016:53 [ref. 35565] as thynnus thynnus, Martins & Carneiro 2018:65 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:560 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:170 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:100 [ref. 36864], Collette & Graves 2019:265 [ref. 37341], Bariche & Fricke 2020:84 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:22 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:94 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:84 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:36 [ref. 39014], Brunken & Woltmann 2022:24 [ref. 39077], Collette 2022:289 [ref. 40167], Fermon et al. 2022:214 [ref. 39448] with question, Simian et al. 2022:376 [ref. 40776], Carvalho-Filho 2023:255 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:114 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus 1758). Scombridae: Scombrinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia (Canada) and Saint Pierre et Miquelon (France) south to northeastern Brazil, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea; western Baltic Sea; North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; temperate waters of the North Atlantic; southeastern Atlantic: South Africa. Habitat: marine.