Two men holding a freshly caught Atlantic sailfish
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Istiophoriformes
Family:
Istiophoridae
Genus:
Istiophorus
Species:
I. albicans
Binomial name
Istiophorus albicans
(Latreille, 1804)
The Atlantic sailfish (Istiophorus albicans) is a species of marine fish in the family Istiophoridae of the order Istiophoriformes. It is found in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, except for large areas of the central North Atlantic and the central South Atlantic, from the surface to depths of 200 m (656 ft). The Atlantic sailfish is related to the marlin.
Tests in the 1920s estimated that the Atlantic sailfish was capable of short sprints of up to 111 kilometres per hour (69 mph); however, more conservative estimates of 37 to 55 kilometres per hour (23 to 34 mph) are more widely accepted.[1] More recent studies even suggest sailfish do not exceed swimming speeds of 36 km/h (22 mph).[2]
Atlantic sailfish hunt schooling fish, such as sardines, anchovies and mackerel although they also feed on crustaceans and cephalopods.
^Burton, M. and Burton, R. (2002) International Wildlife Encyclopedia. Marshall Cavendish, New York.
^Marras, Stefano; Noda, Takuji; Steffensen, John F.; Svendsen, Morten B. S.; Krause, Jens; Wilson, Alexander D. M.; Kurvers, Ralf H. J. M.; Herbert-Read, James; Boswell, Kevin M.; Domenici, Paolo (2015). "Not So Fast: Swimming Behavior of Sailfish during Predator–Prey Interactions using High-Speed Video and Accelerometry". Integrative and Comparative Biology. 55 (4): 719–727. doi:10.1093/icb/icv017. hdl:10536/DRO/DU:30077718. PMID 25898843.
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