Tuna

Thunnus genus_authority = South, 1845 subdivision_ranks = Species subdivision = See text.

Thunnus is a genus of ocean-dwelling fish in the family Scombridae, all of which are tuna, although other tuna species are found in other genera (genus). The name of the genus is the Latinized form of the Greek (Greek language) ??????, th�nnos, tuna, the word being first mentioned in Homer Citation neededdate=April 2010.