Thunnus South, 1845
Gender: M; Encyclopedia metropolitana, 5: 620
Type: Scomber thynnus L.,1758. Substitute name for Thynnus Cuvier, 1817, preocc. (Insects).
Synonyms
Thynnus Cuvier, 1817, Règne animal, 2: 313 (type: Scomber thynnus L., 1758).
Orycnus Gill, 1863b, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 14, 1862 (1863): 125 (type: Scomber thynnus L., 1758).
Albacora Jordan, 1889, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Scomber thynnus L., 1758).
Thunnus Fraser-Brunner, 1950 (subgenus)
Fraser-Brunner, 1950, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., London, (12) 3 (25): 142.
Germo Jordan, 1889 (subgenus), Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 40, 1888 (1889): 180 (type: Scomber alalonga Gmelin, 1789).
Orcynus Cuvier, 1817, Règne animal, 2: 314 (type: Scomber germo Lac. = Scomber alalonga Gmel.).
Neothunnus Kishinouye, 1923 (subgenus), Journ. Coll. Agric. Tokyo, 8 (3): 445 (type: Thynnus macropterus Temminck and Schlegel, 1844, Fauna japonica: 98, pl. 51 = Thunnus (Neothunnus) albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788). It is kept as a subgenus by Fraser-Brunner, 1950: 142, and by Rivas, 1961:129.
Parathunnus Kishinouye, 1923 (subgenus), Journ. Coll. Agric. Tokyo, 8 (3): 442 (type: Thunnus mebachi Kishinouye, 1915, Suisan Gakkwai Ho, 1:19, pl. I (fi). 11), fide Kishinouye, 1923). It has been kept as a subgenus by Fraser-Brunner, 1950: 142, and by Rivas, 1961: 129.