Description
White Marlin (Tetrapturus albidus) in North Carolina
Date 25 August 2007, 11:16:44
Source originally posted to Flickr as White Marlin in North Carolina
Author dominic sherony http://flickr.com/photos/9765210@N03
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_Marlin_in_North_Carolina_1394318584.jpg

White marlin (Kajikia albidus), also known as Atlantic white marlin, marlin, skilligalee, is a species of billfish that lives in the epipelagic zone of the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Ocean. In 1860, Felipe Poey gave the white marlin the name Tetrapurus albidus.
Order: Perciformes
Family: Istiophoridae
Genus: Kajikia
Species: Kajikia albidus (Poey, 1860)
Synonyms:
Tetrapturus albidus Poey, 1860
Lamontella albida (Poey, 1860)
Makaira albida (Poey, 1860)
Tetrapturus lessonae Canestrini, 1861
Makaira lessonae (Canestrini, 1861)