1. The Albacore is a species of fish in the Scombridae family

2. Bonito, (genus Sarda), tunalike schooling fish of the tuna and mackerel family, Scombridae (order Perciformes)

3. Fish of the families Scombridae, Clupeidae, Engraulidae, Coryphaenidae, which include the tunas, sardines, mackerel, abalone, etc., are the most implicated in this food poisoning because of their high content of the aminoacid histidine which is considered the precursor of the histamine.

4. As nouns the difference between tuna and Bonito is that tuna is any of several species of fish, of the genus thunnus , in the family scombridae or tuna can be the prickly pear, a type of cactus native to mexico in the genus opuntia while Bonito is any of various marine fish of the genus (taxlink), that are related to and resemble the tuna.