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Istiompax indica
Description
Istiompax indica (Cuvier, 1832).
Black Marlin. To 5 m (16.4 ft) TL (Randall et al. 1990). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); southern California (Miller and Lea 1972) to northern Chile (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Oceanic; depth: near surface to 258 m (846 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Chiang et al. 2015). Recently as Makaira indica (Cuvier, 1832).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 213, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Istiophoridae
- Genus
- Istiompax
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Cuvier
- Species
- indica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Istiompax indica (Cuvier, 1832) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Randall, J., Allen, G. R. & Steene, R. C. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
- Savinykh, V. F. (1998) Nekton composition of near-surface waters of the subarctic front zone in the northwest part of the Pacific Ocean according to the data of drift-net catches. Journal of Ichthyology, 38, 18 - 27.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Chiang, W. - C., Musyl, M. K., Sun, C. - Lu, DiNardo, G., Hung, H. - M., Lin, H. C., Chen, S. - Chi, Yeh, S. - Z., Chen, W. - Y. & C. - L. Kuo. (2015) Seasonal movements and diving behaviour of black marlin (Istiompax indica) in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Fisheries Research, 166, 92 - 102. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. fishres. 2014.10.023