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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Euthynnus lineatus

Black skipjack

WoRMS 273806ITIS 172405key worms:273806
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172405 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · John Hlavin · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Euthynnus alletteratus
Black skipjack84 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Black skipjack tuna (Euthynnus lineatus), San José del Cabo, Baja California, Mexico. E. lineatus can be found in the Eastern tropical Pacific from San Simeon, California to northern Peru and the Galá
Photo · Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons

Euthynnus lineatus, the black skipjack tuna or black skipjack, is a species of ray-finned bony fish in the family Scombridae. It belongs to the tribe Thunnini, better known as the tunas.W CalCOFI holds 47 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2006, as larva.R

47
observations
47
records
47
sampling events
1959–2006
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 47 obs · 47 events · 1959–2006 · larva
    name used: Euthynnus lineatus Black skipjack · code 565

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:273806%22