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Makaira nigricans Lacepede 1802
Description
Makaira nigricans Lacepède, 1802.
Blue Marlin. To 5 m (16.4 ft) TL (Heemstra in Smith and Heemstra 1986). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Sea of Japan, and off southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); at least San Clemente and Santa Catalina Islands, southern California (Pete Thomas, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Mejillones, Chile (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including southernmost Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Oceanic; depth: near surface to 600 m (1,968 ft) (Hoolihan et al. 2009).
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
- Makaira
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lacepede
- Species
- nigricans
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Makaira nigricans Lacepede, 1802 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Smith, M. M. & Heemstra, P. C. (Eds.). (1986) Smiths' Sea Fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
- 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.
- Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Hoolihan, J. P., Luo, L., Richardson, D. E., Snodgrass, D., Orbesen, E. S. & Prince, E. D. (2009) Vertical movement rate estimates for Atlantic istiophorid billfishes derived from high resolution pop-up satellite archival data. Bulletin of Marine Science, 84, 257 - 264.