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Istiophorus platypterus
Description
Istiophorus platypterus (Shaw, 1792).
Sailfish. To 360 cm (11.7 ft) TL (Randall et al. 1990). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); Dana Point, southern California (Oliphant 1991) to Chile (Miller and Lea 1972), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Oceanic; depth: near surface to 340 m (1,115 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Hoolihan et al. 2011).
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
- Istiophorus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Shaw
- Species
- platypterus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Istiophorus platypterus (Shaw, 1792) 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.
- Parin, N. V. (2003) An annotated catalogue of fish-like vertebrates and fishes of the seas of Russia and adjacent countries: Part 3. Orders Perciformes (excluding suborders Gobioidei, Zoarcoidei and Stichaeoidei) and Tetraodontiformes. Journal of Ichthyology, 43, S 1 - S 40.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- 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.
- Hoolihan, J. P., Luo, J., Goodyear, C. P., Orbesen, E. S. & Prince, E. P. (2011) Vertical habitat use of sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific, derived from pop-up satellite archival tag data. Fisheries Oceanography, 20, 192 - 205. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2419.2011.00577. x