1. By: Braden Mulkey

2. * The Atlantic Bluefin Tuna’s binomial nomenclature is Thunnus Thynnus.

3. * The Tuna inhabit mainly the upper waters that are reached by sunlight * They live in the waters of The Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean Sea, and the areas in between in the Atlantic Ocean.

4. * The Atlantic Blue Fin Tuna spawns in the Mediterranean sea from June to August, and in the Gulf of Mexico from April to June * The Atlantic Blue Fin Tuna mainly eats anchovies and red crabs

6. * The predators of my tuna are mainly, humans and multiple types of sharks. * Most people who threaten the Bluefin Tuna are fishers and fish ranchers.

7. * Anchovies * Red crabs * Other normal tuna species * Multiple Shark species

8. * Sunlight * Oxygen * Water * Sand * Temperature

9. * Right now the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna is listed as an endangered species. * The populations of the tuna can not be determined at the moment but we know that it is decreasing

10. * I believe that my animal is a “butterfly species” because if it went extinct, the fishing market would go down along with future generations of sharks, because their ancestors might starve. Also the population of red crabs and anchovies would rise and would overpopulate the seas, maybe killing off more species.

11. * Collette, B., Amorim, A.F., Boustany, A., Carpenter, K.E., de Oliveira Leite Jr., N., Di Natale, A., Die, D., Fox, W., Fredou, F.L., Graves, J., Viera Hazin, F.H., Hinton, M., Juan Jorda, M., Kada, O., Minte Vera, C., Miyabe, N., Nelson, R., Oxenford, H., Pollard, D., Restrepo, V., Schratwieser, J., Teixeira Lessa, R.P., Pires Ferreira Travassos, P.E. & Uozumi, Y. 2011. Thunnus thynnus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2.. * Atlantic Bluefin Tuna." ARKives.. Wildscreen. 28 January 2013. http://www.arkive.org/atlantic-bluefin-tuna/thunnus-thynnus/. * https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sugexp=les%3Beqn,fixedpos%3Dfalse,boost_nor mal%3D40,boost_high%3D40,cconf%3D1.2,min_length%3D2,rate_low%3D0.035,rate_high %3D0.035,second_pass%3Dfalse,ignore_bad_origquery%3Dtrue,onetoken%3Dfalse&gs_rn =0&gs_ri=serp-qn&tok=SGyoIc5l1e- sMPnF3O7mhA&pq=bluefin+&cp=8&gs_id=4&xhr=t&q=bluefin+tuna&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_ pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.41642243,d.b2I&biw=1517&bih=714&um=1&ie=UTF- 8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=fgALUa2sO8Li2QXb9YHwAw