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Makaira nigricans (Ocean guard; Ocean gar; Marlin; Cuban black marlin; Blue marlin; Billfish; Atlantic blue marlin; Marlín; Squadron)

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Infraspecies

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Makaira nigricans

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  206.133 lbs (93.50 kg)
Maximum Longevity [1]  28 years
Migration [2]  Oceanodromous
Speed [3]  26.843 MPH (12 m/s)

Emblem of

Bahamas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
2Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
3DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF SWIMMING SPEEDS AND DEPTH OF BLUE MARLIN, BARBARA A. BLOCK, DAVID BOOTH AND FRANCIS G. CAREY, J. exp. Biol. 166, 267-284 (1992)
4Diet of the blue marlin, Makaira nigricans, off the south coast of Portugal, Pedro Veiga, José Xavier, Carlos Assis and Karim Erzini
5Preliminary Investigation of the Diets of Large Oceanic Pelagic Species of Importance to the Longline Fishery in Barbados, MARLYN RAWLINS, HAZEL A. OXENFORD, and PAUL FANNING, Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute 58, (2007), p. 243-249
6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
7STOMACH CONTENTS OF THE CARIBBEAN POMFRET Brama caribbea (MEAD, 1972) FROM STOMACH CONTENTS OF GREAT PELAGIC PREDATORS FROM SOUTHWESTERN EQUATORIAL ATLANTIC, Teodoro VASKE JÚNIOR; Rosângela Paula LESSA; Taciana Martins BARBOSA; Mariana Travassos TOLOTTI; Aurelyanna Christine Bezerra RIBEIRO, B. Inst. Pesca, São Paulo, 34(2): 241 - 249, 2008
8Yves Cherel, Richard Sabatié, Michel Potier, Francis Marsac, Frédéric Ménard. 2007. New information from fish diets on the importance of glassy flying squid (Hyaloteuthis pelagica) (Teuthoidea: Ommastrephidae) in the epipelagic community of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Fish. Bull. 105: 147–152.
9CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0