Makaira nigricans Lacepède, 1802

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 213

Makaira nigricans Lacepède, 1802 .

Blue Marlin. To 5 m (16.4 ft) TL (Heemstra in Smith and Heemstra 1986). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Sea of Japan, and off southern Kuril Islands ( Parin 2003); at least San Clemente and Santa Catalina Islands, southern California (Pete Thomas, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Mejillones, Chile ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including southernmost Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2015), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Oceanic; depth: near surface to 600 m (1,968 ft) ( Hoolihan et al. 2009).