Istiophorus
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172487 via WoRMS external link
The sailfish is one or two species of marine fish in the genus Istiophorus, which belong to the family Istiophoridae (marlins). They are predominantly blue to gray in color and have a characteristically large dorsal fin known as the sail, which often stretches the entire length of the back.W CalCOFI holds 8 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1989 and 2000.R
- 8
- observations
- 8
- records
- 1989–2000
- years
- 1
- datasets
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:126012")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:126012'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 1 taxon
- sp Istiophorus platypterus Sailfish8
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Istiophoridae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Felix Vaux · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Kajikia audax · source
- Photo · ricardoortizdemontellano · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Sailfish” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1364175865
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗