Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Istiophorus platypterus

Sailfish

WoRMS 158812ITIS 172488GBIF 5211984key worms:158812

2026-08-05: itis_id 172488 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Felix Vaux · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Kajikia audax

Sailfish3.5 m

a person1.7 m

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Istiophorus platypterus — Photo · Kawahara Keiga, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

The Indo-Pacific sailfish is a sailfish native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans and is naturalized in the Atlantic where it has entered the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal as a Lessepsian migrant.W CalCOFI holds 8 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1989 and 2000, as larva.R

8
observations: 8
records: 8
sampling events: 1989–2000
years: 1
datasets: larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

Ichthyoplankton 8 obs · 8 events · 1989–2000 · larva
name used: Istiophorus platypterus Sailfish · code 586

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorer db-query

ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon

https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:158812%22

Istiophorus platypterus

How big is itiEvery mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it
i
Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.