Tetrapturus

Tetrapturus
Mediterranean spearfish (T. belone)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Carangiformes
Suborder: Menoidei
Superfamily: Xiphioidea
Family: Istiophoridae
Genus: Tetrapturus
Rafinesque, 1810
Type species
Tetrapturus belone
Rafinesque, 1810
Synonyms
  • Lamontella J. L. B. Smith, 1956
  • Marlina Z. Grey, 1928
  • Pseudohistiophorus F. de Buen, 1950
  • Skeponopodus Nardo, 1833

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]

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

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  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Tetrapturus". FishBase. August 2013 version.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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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