Tetrapturus angustirostris Tanaka 1915
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Istiophoridae
- genus
- Tetrapturus
- species
- Tetrapturus angustirostris
description
Shortbill Spearfish. To at least 2.4 m (8 ft) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Indo-Pacific straying into southeastern Atlantic (Fricke et al. 2020); western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); Cape Mendocino, central California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Mejillones, Chile (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Apparently not in Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002). Oceanic; depth: near surface to 1,830 m (6,004 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Robertson and Allen 2002).