Author H. L. Todd
Description
English: Western Atlantic Spear-Fish, Tetrapturus albidus, Poey
Drawing by H. L. Todd, from cast of specimen taken on coast of Massachusetts, and preserved in National Museum
Subject: Spearfishes
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_35152_Western_Atlantic_Spear-Fish,_Tetrapturus_albidus,_Poey.jpeg

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.