Sailfish
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
common name for a marine game and food fish belonging to the family Istiophoridae and related to the swordfish and the marlin. It is named for its high, wide dorsal fin, colored deep blue with black spots.
Sailfish Range
Fast Facts
Type: Fish Diet: Carnivore Average life span in the wild: 4 years Size: 5.7 to 11 ft (1.7 to 3.4 m) Weight: 120 to 220 lbs (54.4 to 100 kg) Group name: School Did you know?
Sailfish: Istiophorus platypterus
Appearance:
Color dark blue on top, brown-blue laterally and silvery white underbelly
Upper jaw elongate in the form of a spear ...
Sailfish feeding frenzy
Planet Earth
Energy super-efficient hunters capitalise on the seasonal nutrient glut.
Atlantic Sailfish Istiophorus albicans
Like swordfish and marlin, the Atlantic sailfish has its upper jaw extended into a long spear. This is used to slash through shoals of fish, stunning and maiming them.
The Atlantic sailfish's habitat varies according to water temperature and in some cases wind conditions. At the northern and southern extremes of their distribution, Atlantic sailfish appear only during the warmer months.
Sailfish
What is WWF doing?
WWF has expressed concerns that overfishing of swordfish may lead to a severe depletion in population levels. It lobbies for protected areas to ensure swordfish fisheries are sustainable.
Atlantic sailfish (Istiophorus albicans)
The Atlantic sailfish (Istiophorus albicans) cuts a truly striking profile, taking its name from the large and distinctive dorsal fin which... More 5 Images 0 videos ...
Sailfish can swim up to 68 miles per hour.
Loudest Animal
Blue whales' low-frequency pulses are as loud as 188 decibels-louder than a jet engine-and can be detected more than 500 miles away.
Celebes Rainbowfish, Celebes Sailfish [ Pictures ]
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PD : The Celebes Rainbowfish has a slender, elongated body with lateral compression. There are two dorsal fins, the first being very small.
In Texas waters they eat fishes including tarpon, sailfish, sharks, speckled trout, pike, rays, mullet, and catfish. They are also known to eat anchovies, menhaden, minnows, shrimp, and eel. They eat about 18-36 kg of fish each day.
Indo-Pacific Sailfish, Istiophorus platypterus (Shaw & Nodder, 1792)
Indo-Pacific Sergeant, Abudefduf vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)
Industrial heritage - Menangle Weir and Viaduct
Infauna of seagrasses and sediments ...
A:The worlds fastest fish is the Sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) which can attain speeds of 68 miles per hour over distances of 100 meters (320 feet). In a comparison the sailfish can swin faster than most people drive their cars! ...
The slower of these is the Cosmopolitan Sailfish, Istiophorus platypterus which was recorded to take out 91 metres (300 feet) of line in three seconds, which is the equivalent of 109.2 km/h or 72 mph.
Tunas, even large ones, must watch out for the temperate and warm temperate swordfish Xiphias gladius and other tropical sailfishes, spearfishes and marlins (Istiophorus, Tetrapturus, Makaira). Humans are a predator shared by all the scombrids.
maximus) is a huge filter feeding shark which grows to be up to about 33 feet (10 m) long. It is the second-largest shark (after the whale shark). The basking shark is also called the sunfish, the bone shark, the elephant shark, the sailfish shark, ...
alternative costs the lives of 25,824 small tuna (these are discarded, not kept and utilized), 27 sharks and rays, 382 mahi mahi (also known as "dolphin fish"), 188 wahoo, 82 yellowtail and other large fish, 1 billfish such as a marlin or sailfish ...
 See also: Shark, Squid, Whale, Marlin, Coral
  
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