alalunga, Scomber Bonnaterre [J. P.] (ex Cetti) 1788:139 [Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie; ref. 4940] Sardinia, Italy, western Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Based on Cetti 1777:191, pl. (opposite p. 28) [ref. 18872]. Species epithet misspelled alalonga by Cuvier 1831:146 [ref. 30376]. •Valid as Thunnus alalunga (Bonnaterre 1788) -- (Gibbs & Collette 1967:97 [ref. 13640], Postel 1973:468 [ref. 7208], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:270 [ref. 7348], Collette & Nauen 1983:81 [ref. 5375], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:274 [ref. 9277], Nakamura in Masuda et al. 1984:226 [ref. 6441], Collette in Whitehead et al. 1986:995 [ref. 13676], Collette 1986:837 [ref. 5647], Robins & Ray 1986:262 [ref. 23100], Allen & Swainston 1988:142 [ref. 25477], Scott & Scott 1988:456 [ref. 25518], Pequeño 1989:67 [ref. 14125], Paulin et al. 1989:231 [ref. 24556], Winterbottom et al. 1989:65 [ref. 13251], McAllister 1990:180 [ref. 14674], Randall et al. 1990:448 [ref. 15987], Collette 1990:991 [ref. 19476], Cervigón 1992:418 [ref. 23827], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:172 [ref. 25472], Cervigón 1994:257 [ref. 24488], Gomon et al. 1994:826 [ref. 22532], Collette in Fischer et al. 1995:1539 [ref. 22830], Khalaf et al. 1996:405 [ref. 23175], Santos et al. 1997:108 [ref. 23531], Allen 1997:230 [ref. 23977], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:274 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:587 [ref. 24023], Arruda 1997:101 [ref. 24952], Randall et al. 1997:448 [ref. 25919], Anderson et al. 1998:28 [ref. 23611], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:398 [ref. 24555], Aguilera 1998:53 [ref. 24221], Fricke 1999:566 [ref. 24106], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:333 [ref. 25013], Collette in Randall & Lim 2000:644 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1349 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:480 [ref. 25191], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:40 [ref. 25650], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:169 [ref. 27754], Collette 2001:3752 [ref. 26305], Collette et al. 2001:3 [ref. 25629], Hutchins 2001:45 [ref. 25847], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:145 [ref. 26753], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:809 [ref. 25968], Nakabo 2002:1349 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:418, 675 [ref. 26218], Collette 2003:1853 [ref. 27087], Collette 2003:13 [ref. 27312], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S121 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:648 [ref. 27495] dated 1789, Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:103 [ref. 27192], Parin 2003:S30 [ref. 28536], Smith et al. 2003:68 [ref. 27621], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:421 [ref. 28072], Heemstra et al. 2004:3331 [ref. 27945], Lobel & Lobel 2004:77 [ref. 27576], Nelson et al. 2004:176 [ref. 27807], Pequeño 2004:96 [ref. 28123], Randall et al. 2004:30 [ref. 27624], Golani 2005:61 [ref. 37112], Love et al. 2005:168 [ref. 37547], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:784 [ref. 28815], Mundy 2005:507 [ref. 28379], Vaske et al. 2005:78 [ref. 36155], Bray et al. 2006:1777 [ref. 29091], Fricke et al. 2007:111 [ref. 29533], Gomon 2008:788 [ref. 30616], Fricke et al. 2009:112 [ref. 30213], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:70 [ref. 36649], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:194 [ref. 30957], Page et al. 2013:182 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2013:135 [ref. 32972], Larson et al. 2013:219 [ref. 32988], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:84 [ref. 33341], Wirtz et al. 2014:11 [ref. 33516], Parin et al. 2014:515 [ref. 33547], Fricke et al. 2014:188 [ref. 33932], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:118 [ref. 36167], Roberts 2015:1634 [ref. 34193], Pinheiro et al. 2015:32 [ref. 34324], Collette in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2911 [ref. 34618], Fourriére et al. 2016:459 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:611 [ref. 34923], Nión et al. 2016:53 [ref. 35565] with author as Bonaterre, Kells et al. 2016:318 [ref. 35888], Fricke et al. 2018:364 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:171 [ref. 36273], Martins & Carneiro 2018:67 [ref. 36550], Brown et al. 2019:173 [ref. 36444], Burton & Lea 2019:93 [ref. 37205], Carneiro et al. 2019:169 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:100 [ref. 36864], Fricke et al. 2019:312 [ref. 36673], Collette & Graves 2019:225 [ref. 37341], Reiner 2019:281 [ref. 38139], Bariche & Fricke 2020:84 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:22 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:94 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:83 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:36 [ref. 39014], Love et al. 2021:212 [ref. 39279], Rotundo et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:442 [ref. 38945], Collette 2022:286 [ref. 40167], Fermon et al. 2022:214 [ref. 39448], Simian et al. 2022:376 [ref. 40776], Carvalho-Filho 2023:252 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Thunnus alalunga (Bonnaterre 1788). Scombridae: Scombrinae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas (including Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, South China Sea, Gulf of California/Mexico). Habitat: marine.