Thunnus alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788) .

Albacore. To 152 cm (5 ft) TL (Foreman 1980). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Collette and Nauen 1983), and southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); northern and eastern Gulf of Alaska (Karinen et al. 1985, Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Chile (Foreman 1980), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015). Oceanic epipelagic and mesopelagic; depth: surface to 1,185 m (3,887 ft) (Childers et al. 2011).