Validity, Identification, and Distribution of the Roundscale Spearfish, Tetrapturus georgii (Teleostei: Istiophoridae): Morphological and Molecular Evidence

• Main Authors: Shivji, Mahmood S., Magnussen, Jennifer E., Beerkircher, Lawrence R., Hinteregger, George, Lee, Dennis W., Serafy, Joseph E., Prince, Eric D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NSUWorks 2006
• Subjects: Genetics and Genomics; Marine Biology; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Lowe; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/374; https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1384&context=occ_facarticles

The roundscale spearfish, Tetrapturus georgii Lowe, 1840, is known only from four specimens from the Mediterranean and eastern North Atlantic. Additional specimens have not been identified since 1961, making the validity and distribution of this species unclear. Analysis of 16 billfish specimens fro...