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Istiophoridae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › › Perciformes › Istiophoridae

Makaira nigricans Lacepède, 1802

Makaira nigricans (blue marlin) is a large billfish with sexual size dimorphism, found in Atlantic tropical and temperate oceans, capable of long-distance migrations.

Istiophorus platypterus (Shaw, 1792)

Istiophorus platypterus, the Indo-Pacific sailfish, is a billfish native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Kajikia audax (Philippi, 1887)

Kajikia audax, the striped marlin, is a widely distributed epipelagic billfish with distinct blue stripes and diel vertical migration.

Related Families

Labridae 155 species Pomacentridae 142 species Gobiidae 120 species Serranidae 103 species Blenniidae 86 species Chaetodontidae 82 species Percidae 67 species Carangidae 53 species

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