Gymnosarda unicolor Dog-tooth Tuna, Peg-tooth Tuna, Scaleless Tuna, White Tuna, White-flesh Tuna

Gymnosarda unicolor is commonly referred to as Dog-tooth Tuna, Peg-tooth Tuna, Scaleless Tuna, White Tuna, White-flesh Tuna. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

4114 

AphiaID:

219712 

Scientific:

Gymnosarda unicolor 

German:

Hundezahn-Thunfisch, Einfarben-Thunfisch 

English:

Dog-tooth Tuna, Peg-tooth Tuna, Scaleless Tuna, White Tuna, White-flesh Tuna 

Category:

Tunas 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scombridae (Family) > Gymnosarda (Genus) > unicolor (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Rüppell, ), 1836 

Occurrence:

Djibouti, Hong Kong, Sudan, Eritrea, (the) Maldives, Africa, Australia, China, Christmas Islands, Comores, Cook Islands, Corea, Egypt, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Gulf of Oman / Oman, India, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Madagascar, Marschall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mozambique, Myanmar, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Red Sea, Réunion , Samoa, Saudi Arabia, South-Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tansania, the Cocos Islands / Keeling Islands, the Seychelles, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Yemen 

Sea depth:

10 - 300 Meter 

Size:

74.8" - 98.43" (190cm - 250cm) 

Weight:

131 kg 

Temperature:

68 °F - 82.4 °F (20°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Fish (little fishes), Sepia 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

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  Gymnosarda unicolor
  Hundezahn-Thunfisch, Einfarben-Thunfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2012-02-08 15:27:50 

Last edit:

2019-08-30 13:31:11 

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