Dog Tooth Tuna

Description:

This Tuna was of a good size, at least 1.5 meters length. Gymnosarda unicolor, commonly known as the Dogtooth tuna or White tuna, is a species of pelagic marine fish which belongs to the family Scombridae The distinctive points to recognize the Dogtooth tuna are its large size, can grow up 2.50 m and 130 kg, its streamline shape, always swimming with open jaws and its body coloration :blue green on the back, silver on the side and whitish on the belly and two white tips on the two back fins close to its caudal peduncle. The average size commonly observed is around 40 to 120 cms.

Habitat:

The Dogtooth tuna is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific area from the eastern coast of Africa, Red Sea included, to oceanic islands of the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii excluded.