FB-218 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=218 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Carangiformes Istiophoridae Makaira Makaira mazara (Jordan & Snyder, 1901) Svart marlin Melius Neyzeh-mahi-e-syah Makaira czarna Espadim Espadim negro Espadim-negro Espadim-petro Expadim-negro Marlin-negro Sombra-negra Swart marlyn Kheil al bahar Marlin Sort marlin Marlin Schwarzer Marlin Weißer Marlin Black marlin Black marlin fish Black-marlin D'ombrain's marlin Giant black marlin Marlin Pacific black marlin Short nosed sword fish Silver marlin Silver marlin fish Swordfish Mustmarliin Hatali kofi saku vorowaqa Mustamarliini Makaire noir Marlin noir Onyankle A'u Shirokajiki Malasugi Marlin nero Pesce lancia Kurokawa Shirokajiki Tonki Baek-sae-chi 백새치 Taketonga Tadmasa तदमासा Ikan layer Layaran Mersuji Mersuji hitam Puoh hu Suji Tumbuk banir Sere bristyi marlin Marlin Sa'ula-oso Daanbeeri Nduwalo Sulisuli Black marlin Spjutfisk Svart marlin Ha'ura Kopparaikulla Kopparan குப்பரான்  கொப்பரன் கொப்பரைகுல்லா கொப்பரைகுலா Marlin Cá Cờ Ấn Độ Dieunou dong Aguja negra Marlin Marlin negro Marlín negro Merlín negro Picudo Picudo negro Ahin koppara Black marlin Bwagilum Dhappara Dol-lakak Dugho Ghappara Kalu koppara Kopparaikulla Kopparan Kopparava Kponzele Makara Malakay Malasugue Marlijn Marlin Marlin noir Saparava Sapparava Taguraar Tandalayang Tiuvaka Varé Zwarte marlijn Zwarte marlin 印度枪鱼 印度槍魚 白肉旗鱼 立翅旗魚 立翅旗鱼 翘翅仔 馬林槍魚 马林枪鱼 Histiophorus brevirostris Playfair, 1867 Istiomax indicus (Cuvier, 1832) Istiompax australis Whitley, 1931 Istiompax brevirostris (Playfair, 1867) Istiompax dombraini Whitley, 1954 Istiompax indicus (Cuvier, 1832) Istiompax marlina (Jordan & Hill, 1926) Maikaira indica (Cuvier, 1832) Makaira ampla marlina Jordan & Hill, 1926 Makaira ampla tahitiensis Nichols & LaMonte, 1935 Makaira australis (MacLeay, 1854) Makaira brevirostris (Playfair, 1867) Makaira herscheri (non Gray, 1838) Makaira indica (Cuvier, 1832) Makaira indicus (Cuvier, 1832) Makaira malina Jordan & Hill, 1926 Makaira marhina Jordan & Hill, 1926 Makaira marlina Jordan & Hill, 1926 Makaira marlina marlina Jordan & Hill, 1926 Makaira marlina tahitiensis Nichols & LaMonte, 1935 Makaira mazara tahitiensis Nichols & LaMonte, 1935 Makaira nigricans marlina Jordan & Hill, 1926 Makaira nigricans tahitiensis Nichols & La Monte, 1935 Makaira xantholineata Deraniyagala, 1956 Malina malina (Jordan & Hill, 1926) Marlina marlina (Jordan & Hill, 1926) Tetrapterus australis Macleay, 1854 Tetrapturus australis Macleay, 1854 Tetrapturus brevirostris (Playfair, 1867) Tetrapturus indicus Cuvier, 1832 1990-10-17 2012-03-06 Nakamura, I.0 FAO species catalogue. 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Ofori-Adu0 Fishes in the coastal waters of Ghana. Comm. 2. Tema-Ghana. 124p. (Ref. 130891) FB-pic-217-4416 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage image/gif FAO 1995-06-02 2008-08-04 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Image can be freely copied and altered but may be used only for non-commercial purposes. Original author and source must be properly acknowledged WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=217 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Maind_u1.gif http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/gif/tn_Maind_u1.gif FB-pic-217-10374 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage image/gif Robbie N. Cada 1993-07-01 2008-06-25 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Image can be freely copied and altered, as long as original author and source are properly acknowledged. WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=217 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Maind_u0.gif http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/gif/tn_Maind_u0.gif FB-GeneralDescr-217 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1990-10-17 00:00:00 2025-10-27 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=217 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#DiagnosticDescription Oceanic, usually found in surface waters above the thermocline, often near shore close to land masses, islands and coral reefs. Feed on fishes, squids, cuttlefishes, octopods, large decapod crustaceans and mostly on small tunas when abundant (Ref. 9668). The flesh is of good quality; marketed refrigerated or frozen and prepared as sashimi in Japan (Ref. 9308). Also Ref. 9692. Nakamura, I. 1985 FAO species catalogue. Vol. 5. Billfishes of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of marlins, sailfishes, spearfishes and swordfishes known to date. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(5):65p. Rome: FAO. (Ref. 43) FB-DiagnosticDescr-217 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Cristina V. Garilao 1997-02-26 00:00:00 2006-05-05 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=217 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Morphology Body elongate and not very compressed; upper jaw produced into a robust but not very long beak; two dorsal fins, the height of the first less then the greatest body depth, becoming shorter posteriorly; pectoral fins falcate and rigid, with 19 to 20 rays; body densely covered with small, embedded scales with 1 or 2 sharp points; back dark blue; belly silvery white; membrane of first dorsal fin blue black, without spots; flanks without spots (Ref. 55763). Dark blue above, silvery white below; sometimes with light blue vertical stripes; 1st dorsal fin blackish to dark blue, other fins dark brown with tinges of dark blue in some specimens. Nakamura, I. 1985 FAO species catalogue. Vol. 5. Billfishes of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of marlins, sailfishes, spearfishes and swordfishes known to date. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(5):65p. Rome: FAO. (Ref. 43) FB-Morphology-217 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Cristina V. Garilao 1997-02-26 00:00:00 2006-05-05 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=217 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 39 - 50; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 16 - 21 Nakamura, I. 1985 FAO species catalogue. Vol. 5. Billfishes of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of marlins, sailfishes, spearfishes and swordfishes known to date. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(5):65p. Rome: FAO. (Ref. 43) FB-Distribution-217 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2025-04-25 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=217 Indo-Pacific: tropical and subtropical waters, occasionally entering temperate waters. Stray individuals migrate into the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Cape of Good Hope, but the existence of Atlantic breeding stocks is unlikely. Highly migratory species. Nakamura, I. 1985 FAO species catalogue. Vol. 5. Billfishes of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of marlins, sailfishes, spearfishes and swordfishes known to date. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(5):65p. Rome: FAO. (Ref. 43) FB-Uses-217 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1990-10-17 00:00:00 2025-10-27 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=217 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size fisheries: commercial; gamefish: yes FAO 1992 FAO yearbook. Fishery statistics: catches and landings. Vol. 70: 1990. FAO Fish. Ser. 38:647 p. (Ref. 4931) International Game Fish Association 1991 World record game fishes. International Game Fish Association, Florida, USA. (Ref. 4699) Sun, C.-L., S.-Z. Yeh, C.-S. Liu, N.-J. Su and W.-C. Chiang 2015 Age and growth of black marlin (<i>Istiopomax indica</i>) off eastern Taiwan. Fish. Res. 166:4-11. (Ref. 105566) FB-Migration-217 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1990-10-17 00:00:00 2025-10-27 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=217 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats Oceanodromous. Migrating within oceans typically between spawning and different feeding areas, as tunas do. Migrations should be cyclical and predictable and cover more than 100 km. United Nations 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982. United Nations. Retrieved on June 30, 2004, from http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/UNCLOS-TOC.htm (Ref. 71039) FB-LifeCycle-217 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 1990-10-17 00:00:00 2025-10-27 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org//Reproduction/FishReproSummary.php?ID=217&StockCode=231 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat Believed to prefer water temperatures around 27° to 28°C during spawning. Egg counts of ripe roe totaled about 40 million per female. Nakamura, I. 1985 FAO species catalogue. Vol. 5. Billfishes of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of marlins, sailfishes, spearfishes and swordfishes known to date. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(5):65p. Rome: FAO. (Ref. 43) FB-TrophicStrategy-217 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 1992-12-09 00:00:00 2008-01-24 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ indica Seasonal changes in distributions of catch rates, reflecting concentrations of fish, do take place but individuals do not follow clear migration routes (Ref. 30358). Such seasonal concentrations are known to occur in the north-west Coral Sea, off the North West Shelf of Australia, in the Banda Sea and the east China Sea (Ref. 6390). There have been suggestions that the distributions and migrations of black marlin are sex-dependent (Ref. 30359). Knowledge of seasonal changes in distribution and migration patterns of this highly mobile species is largely based on catch data collected by the Japanese longline fleet (Ref. 6390). Tagging has also assisted greatly in interpretation of movement patterns (Ref. 30358, 30360).In Australian waters, aggregation in the Coral Sea during September-December, presumed 1-2-year-old fish and 1 or 2 older groups move south parallel to the eastern Australian coastline from north Queensland to central New South Wales, apparently in association with the southward movement of the East Australian Current (Ref. 30358). By April, however, the fish have probably dispersed eastwards (catch rates in eastern Australia between April and August are generally very low). Fish can move large distances (up to 7200 km in 359 days) and recaptures from tagging studies over several years strongly suggest annual homing of at least part of the (western Coral Sea) population (Ref. 30358). It appears that fish also migrate from northwestern Australia to Indian Ocean waters south of Indonesia in late March-April, and fish migrate back to north-western Australia during October (Ref. 30354). High catch rates occur in the Banda Sea north of Australia between January and April (Ref. 6390).Black marlin larvae have been found only in the north-west Coral Sea off Queensland and off northwestern Australia, south of 10°S (where they were misidentified as sailfish larvaeIstiophorus platypterus (Ref. 30361, 30362). Off Lizard Island in north Queensland, concentrations of black marlin larvae have been found in close proximity (within half a mile) to the outer slopes of coral reefs on the edge of the continental shelf (Ref. 30362). Nakamura, I. 1985 FAO species catalogue. Vol. 5. Billfishes of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of marlins, sailfishes, spearfishes and swordfishes known to date. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(5):65p. Rome: FAO. (Ref. 43) FB-Size-217 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1990-10-17 00:00:00 2025-10-27 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=217 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Morphology 465 cm FL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 40637)); max. published weight: 750.0 kg (Ref. 5503) IGFA 2001 Database of IGFA angling records until 2001. IGFA, Fort Lauderdale, USA. (Ref. 40637) Cornic, A. 1987 Poissons de l'Île Maurice. Editions de l'Océan Indien, Stanley Rose Hill, Ile Maurice. 335 p. (Ref. 5503) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-217 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1990-10-17 00:00:00 2025-10-27 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=217 pelagic-oceanic; oceanodromous (Ref. 71039); marine; depth range 0 - 915 m (Ref. 43), usually 0 - 200 m (Ref. 43) United Nations 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982. United Nations. 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