Tetrapturus
Genus of fishes
| Tetrapturus | |
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| Mediterranean spearfish (T. belone) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Istiophoriformes |
| Family: | Istiophoridae |
| Genus: | Tetrapturus Rafinesque, 1810 |
| Type species | |
| Tetrapturus belone Rafinesque, 1810 | |
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Tetrapturus is a genus of marlins commonly called spearfish, found in tropical and subtropical oceans throughout the world. Some are popular sport fish in big-game fishing.
Species
There are currently four recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Tetrapturus angustirostris S. Tanaka (I), 1915 (Shortbill spearfish)
- Tetrapturus belone Rafinesque, 1810 (Mediterranean spearfish)
- Tetrapturus georgii R. T. Lowe, 1841 (Roundscale spearfish)
- Tetrapturus pfluegeri C. R. Robins & de Sylva, 1963 (Longbill spearfish)
Fossil relatives of spearfishes include Prototetrapturus from the Late Miocene of Algeria, and both Pizzikoskerma & Sicophasma from the late Miocene of Italy. All are placed in the clade Tetrapturomorpha.[2][3]
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tetrapturus.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Tetrapturus". FishBase. August 2013 version.
- ^ De Gracia, Carlos; Correa-Metrio, Alex; Carvalho, Mónica; Velez-Juarbe, Jorge; Přikryl, Tomáš; Jaramillo, Carlos; Kriwet, Jürgen (2022-12-31). "Towards a unifying systematic scheme of fossil and living billfishes (Teleostei, Istiophoridae)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 20 (1): 1–36. doi:10.1080/14772019.2022.2091959. ISSN 1477-2019.
- ^ De Gracia, Carlos; Villalobos-Segura, Eduardo; Ballen, Gustavo A.; Carnevale, Giorgio; Kriwet, Jürgen (July 2024). "Phylogenetic patterns in fossil and living billfishes (Istiophoriformes, Istiophoridae): evidence from the Central Mediterranean". Papers in Palaeontology. 10 (4). doi:10.1002/spp2.1559. ISSN 2056-2799.
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