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swordfish (Xiphias gladius)
Subject: swordfish (Xiphias gladius)
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FMIB 50974 Swordfish (Yount).jpeg
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swordfish (Xiphias gladius)


Author George Brown Goode (1851–1896)
English: Swordfish (Yount)
Xiphias gladius, L.
Subject: Swordfish
Tag: Fish
Date 1884
Source/Photographer
English: Goode, George Brown (1884) Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States: Section I, Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals, Plates, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_50974_Swordfish_(Yount).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.

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