Actinopterygii · Perciformes
Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
Thunnus thynnus
Endothermic pelagic predator maintaining core muscle temperatures up to 20°C above the surrounding water via a specialized counter-current heat exchanger, allowing sustained cruising speeds through cold water far from any coast.
- Realm
- Marine
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Data provenance
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and version Evidence snapshot
A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1472 licence-filtered records across 100 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (41)
- Artportalen (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Beacon Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0520, Equinor Wind US LLC, December 2019 – November 2020 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Beacon Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0520, Equinor Wind US LLC, March 2021 – October 2021 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Cap'n Fish's Cruises sightings (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- CEDaR Online Recording (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Decadal tracking of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Digital Aerial Baseline Survey of Marine Wildlife in Support of Offshore Wind Energy - OPA 2017 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Digital Aerial Baseline Survey of Marine Wildlife in Support of Offshore Wind Energy - OPA 2018 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Ecological Baseline Studies of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf Option Year 1 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Ecological Baseline Studies of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf Option Year 2 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Empire Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0512, Empire Offshore Wind LLC, July 2024 to May 2025 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Empire Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0512, Equinor Wind US LLC, February - December 2019 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Empire Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0512, Equinor Wind US LLC, November 2017-October 2018 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- HBRG Vertebrates (not Badger) Dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- ICATMAR bottom trawl survey data in the Western Mediterranean (commercial and bycatch species) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Seasearch Marine Surveys in England (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Verified marine records from Indicia-based surveys (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Vertebrates (except birds; INNS and otters); Outer Hebrides (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Wildlife observations of seabirds and marine mammals collected during sonar vessel surveys in the Gulf of Maine, 2015-2025, by the Maine Coastal Mapping Initiative (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)