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Slender Tuna

Reference

IB3800

Category

Fishes

Family Name

Mackerels/Tunas

Common Name

Slender Tuna

Scientific Name

Allothunnus fallai

Artist Name

Roger Swainston

Notes

Tunas are amongst the fastest-swimming of all fishes and are voracious predators of other small schooling fishes,Crustaceans and Squids. The Tunas, Frigate Mackerel and Albacore is an unique group in that its members are able to maintain a body temperature higher than that of the surrounding water.

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