Indo-Pacific sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) Author George Brown Goode (1851–1896)
Description
English: Old World Sail-fish, Histiophorus gladius
Outline from figure in Cuvier & Valenciennes' Historie Naturelle des Poissons
Subject: Sailfish
Tag: Fish
Date 1883
Source/Photographer
English: Goode, G. Brown (1883) Materials for a History of the Sword-Fish, Report of the Commissioner for 1880 (United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries), Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_35160_Old_World_Sail-fish,_Histiophorus_gladius.jpeg
The Indo-Pacific sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) is a sailfish native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Two sailfish species have been recognized; Atlantic sailfish and Indo-Pacific sailfish. However, no differences have been found in mtDNA, morphometrics or meristics between the two supposed species and most authorities now only recognized a single species, (Istiophorus platypterus), found in warmer oceans around the world.