Plain bonito | |
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Plain bonito (Orcynopsis unicolor) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Scombriformes |
Family: | Scombridae |
Subfamily: | Scombrinae |
Tribe: | Sardini |
Genus: |
Orcynopsis Gill, 1862 |
Species: | O. unicolor
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Binomial name | |
Orcynopsis unicolor (
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)
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Synonyms [2] | |
Orcynopsis unicolor, the plain bonito, is a species of ray-finned, bony fish in the bonito tribe of the mackerel family ( Scombridae). [3] [4] It occurs in the eastern Atlantic from southern Norway, where it is a vagrant, to Senegal, although it is not found in the seas around the Macaronesian Islands. It is also found in the Mediterranean Sea and extends to the Black Sea. [2]
This fish is classified into the genus Orcynopsis, which is a monotypic taxon, having only this single species in its membership. It grows to four feet, and thirty pounds. [5]