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Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans)
Subject: Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans)
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FMIB 35150 Cape Spear-Fish, Tetrapturus Herschellii.jpeg
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Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans)


English: Cape Spear-Fish, Tetrapturus Herschellii
Outline from figure in Annals of Natural History
Author George Brown Goode (1851–1896)
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_35150_Cape_Spear-Fish,_Tetrapturus_Herschellii.jpeg

The Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) is a species of marlin endemic to the Atlantic Ocean. Blue marlins are distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. It preys on a wide variety of marine organisms, mostly near the surface, often using its bill to stun or injure its prey.

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