Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans)

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Subject:	Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans)
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FMIB 35156 Cuban Spear-Fish, Tetrapturus amplus.jpeg

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Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans)

English: Cuban Spear-Fish, Tetrapturus amplus
Fac simile of figure in Poem, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba
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_35156_Cuban_Spear-Fish,_Tetrapturus_amplus.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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Scientific Name: Makaira nigricans Lacepède, 1802 Common Names: Blue Marlin, Atlantic Blue Marlin, Cuban Black Marlin; [French] Empereur, Empereur Bleu, Marlin Bleu; [Spanish] Marlín Azul, Marlin Negro, Merlin Rayado, Pez Zuncho, Picudo Blanco, Picudo Rollizo Synonyms: Eumakaira nigra Hirasaka and Nakamura 1947 Histiophorus herschelii (Gray 1838) Istiompax howardi Whitley 1954 Istiompax mazara Jordan and Snyder 1901 Maikaira nigricans Lacepède 1802 Makaira ampla Poey 1860 Makaira bermudae Mowbray 1931 Makaira ensis Lacepède 1800 Makaira herschelii Gray 1838 Makaira nigra Hirasaka and Nakamura 1947 Makaira perezi de Buen 1950 Tetrapturus amplus Poey 1860 Tetrapturus herschelii Grey 1838 Tetrapturus mazara Jordan and Snyder 1901

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