Family Tree
Tuna Species Phylogenic Tree
Classification
| Domain: | Eukarya | Multicellular, each containing a nucleus, and has membrane bound organelles. |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | Multicellular, hetertrophic, and lacks cell walls. |
| Phylum: | Chordata | Posses a dorsal nerve chord, its bilaterally symetrical, has a post-anal tail, and shows pharyngeal structures. |
| Class: | Actinopterygii | It belongs to the ray-finned fishes which posses fins that are webs of skin supported by bony spines. |
| Order: | Perciformes | It is a "perch-like" fish which means it has dorsal and anal fins divided into anterior spiny and posterior soft-rayed portions. |
| Family: | Scombridae | It posses two dorsal fins and a series of finlets behind the rear dorsal and anal fin. |
| Genus: | Thunnus | It is a warm blooded fish. "Thunnus" means tuna in Latin. |
| Species: | Thunnus thynnus | A species of tuna native to both the western and eastern Atlantic Ocean. |