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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorIstiophorus albicans (Latreille, 1804) 
AphiaID: 126949

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChordata (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVertebrata (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGnathostomata (Superclass) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorPisces (Superclass) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorActinopterygii (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPerciformes (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorIstiophoridae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorIstiophorus (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorIstiophorus Lacepède, 1801
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHistiophorus albicans (Latreille, 1804)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHistiophorus americanus Cuvier, 1832
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHistiophorus granulifer Castelnau, 1861
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHistiophorus pulchellus Cuvier, 1832
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorIstiophorus americanus (Cuvier, 1832)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorIstiophorus maguirei Jordan & Evermann, 1926
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorIstiophorus volador Jordan & Evermann, 1926
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorIstiophorus wrighti Jordan & Evermann, 1926
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMakaira albicans Latreille, 1804
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMakaira velifera Cuvier, 1832
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSkeponopodus guebucu Nardo, 1833
Sources  basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorsailfishUnreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorAtlantic sailfish [from synonym]  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution 
From other sources
Gulf of Mexico
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of Mexico [details]
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGreek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North Atlantic Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEuropean waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorth West Atlantic [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorPortuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorUnited Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South Africa
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSouth Africa (country) [details]
(no group)
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSpanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Host of  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGloiopotes americanus Cressey, 1967 [via synonym] (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGloiopotes ornatus Wilson C.B., 1905 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo FishBase 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Marine Species Identification Portal 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo PESI 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
Images Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editor[show unreviewed]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126949
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Istiophorus albicans (Latreille, 1804). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126949 on 2014-04-17
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