Actinopteri - Scombriformes - Scombridae
Alternative combination: Thynnus proximus
Full reference: H. E. Sauvage. 1870. Synopsis des poissons tertiaires de Licata. Anales des Sciences Naturalles, Zoologie et Paleontologie 14:1-26
Belongs to Orcynus according to C. Arambourg 1925
See also Sauvage 1870 and Sauvage 1873
Sister taxa: Thunnus (Alciola), Thunnus abchazicus, Thunnus alalunga, Thunnus albacares, Thunnus atlanticus, Thunnus krambergeri, Thunnus lanceolatus, Thunnus latior, Thunnus maccoyii, Thunnus obesus, Thunnus orientalis, Thunnus secretus, Thunnus thynnus, Thunnus tonggol, Thynnus bolcensis, Thynnus angustus, Thynnus scaldisi, Thynnus scaldisii
Type specimen: Its type locality is Licata, which is in a Messinian marine horizon in Italy
Distribution: found only at Licata
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