Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre 1788) − Yellowfin tuna Gulf of Suez: − Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Germo albacora), Jordan (Marshall 1952, as Thynnus albacora). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Debelius 2007), Sudan (Olsen et al. 2021), Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia 1968), Yemen (Heba et al. 1998). General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas. IUCN (2021): Least Concern. Remarks: Lessepsian migrant in eastern Mediterranean Sea (Michailidis et al. 2021; Golani 2025).

Published as part of Golani, Daniel & Fricke, Ronald, 2026, Revised checklist of the fishes of the Red Sea, including distribution in the Gulf of Suez and Gulf of Aqaba, with notes on endemism and Lessepsian migration, pp. 1-257 in Zootaxa 5780 (1) on page 91, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5780.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/19175291