Indo-Pacific sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) Description
Title: Brehms Thierleben : Allgemeine Kunde des Thierreichs
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Brehm, A. E. (Alfred Edmund), 1829-1884; Schmidt, Dr. (Eduard Oskar), 1823-1886; Taschenberg, Ernst Ludwig, 1818-1898
Subjects: Animal behavior; Zoology
Date 1876
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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.
Order: Perciformes
Family: Istiophoridae
Genus: Istiophorus
Species: Istiophorus platypterus (G. Shaw, 1792)
Synonyms:
Histiophorus americanus Cuvier,1832
Histiophorus ancipitirostris Cuvier, 1832
Histiophorus dubius Bleeker, 1872
Histiophorus gracilirostris Cuvier, 1832
Histiophorus granulifer Castelnau, 1861
Histiophorus immaculatus Rüppell, 1830
Histiophorus indicus Cuvier, 1832
Histiophorus magnioci Jordan, 1927
Histiophorus orientalis Temminck & Schlegel, 1844
Histiophorus pulchellus Cuvier, 1832
Istiophorus amarui Curtiss, 1944
Istiophorus brookei Fowler, 1933
Istiophorus eriquius Jordan, 1926
Istiophorus gladifer Lacepède, 1801
Istiophorus greyi Jordan & Evermann, 1926
Istiophorus japonicus Jordan & Thompson, 1914
Istiophorus ludibundus Whitley, 1933
Istiophorus maguirei Jordan & Evermann, 1926
Istiophorus triactis Klunzinger, 1871
Istiophorus wrighti Jordan & Evermann, 1926
Makaira albicans Latreille, 1804
Makaira velifera Cuvier, 1832
Scomber gladius Bloch, 1793
Skeponopodus guebucu Nardo, 1833
Xiphias platypterus Shaw, 1792
Xiphias velifer Bloch & Schneider, 1801
