Author
English: New York Fish and Game Commission
Description
English: Swordfish--Adult (Xiphias gladius Linnaeus)
Subject: Swordfish
Tag: Fish
Date 1902
Source/Photographer
English: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission (1902) Seventh Report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York, 1901, Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers, p. 372
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_41858_Swordfish--Adult_(Xiphias_gladius_Linnaeus).jpeg

Swordfish (Xiphias gladius), also known as broadbills or broadbill swordfish in some countries, are large, highly migratory, predatory fish characterized by a long, flat bill. They are a popular sport fish of the billfish category, though elusive. Swordfish are elongated, round-bodied, and lose all teeth and scales by adulthood. These fish are found widely in tropical and temperate parts of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.