WoRMS taxon details
Istiophorus platypterus (Shaw, 1792)
AphiaID: 158812
AphiaID: 158812
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Istiophoridae (Family) > Istiophorus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Istiophorus Lacepède, 1801 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Istiophorus Lacepède, 1801 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Histiophorus dubius Bleeker, 1872 (misspelling) Histiophorus gladius (Bloch, 1793) Histiophorus immaculatus Rüppell, 1830 Histiophorus indicus Cuvier, 1832 Histiophorus orientalis Temminck & Schlegel, 1844 Istiophorus amarui Curtiss, 1944 Istiophorus brookei Fowler, 1933 Istiophorus dubius Bleeker, 1872 Istiophorus eriquius Jordan & Ball, 1926 Istiophorus gladifer Lacepède, 1801 Istiophorus gladius (Bloch, 1793) Istiophorus gladius greyi Jordan & Evermann, 1926 Istiophorus gladus (Bloch, 1793) (misspelling) Istiophorus greyi Jordan & Evermann, 1926 Istiophorus greyii Jordan & Evermann, 1926 Istiophorus immaculatus (Rüppell, 1830) Istiophorus japonicus Jordan & Thompson, 1914 Istiophorus ludibundus Whitley, 1933 Istiophorus orientalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844) Istiophorus triactis Klunzinger, 1871 Scomber gladius Bloch, 1793 Xiphias platypterus Shaw, 1792 Xiphias velifer Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (synonym) Xiphias velifer Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] basis of record: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details] basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Comores [details] Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North Pacific [details] North West Atlantic [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] Western Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Pennella instructa Wilson C.B., 1917 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Gloiopotes huttoni (Thomson G.M., 1890) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (52 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Species fact sheets To FishBase To GenBank (329 nucleotides; 99 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Oceanic, epipelagic and highly migratory species usually found above the thermocline. Most densely distributed in waters close to coasts and islands (Ref. 9688). Most likely schools by size. Known to be migratory (Ref. 9308). Feeds mainly on fishes, crustaceans and cephalopods. This species is very similar to @I. albicans@. Also caught with long lines, set nets, troll lines and harpoons (Ref. 9308). Utilized fresh, smoked and frozen; also used for sashimi and sushi; eaten broiled and baked (Ref. 9987). [details] Distribution: Virginian, south side of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158812 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Istiophorus platypterus (Shaw, 1792). 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=158812 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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