Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, 1758

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Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, 1758 .

Swordfish. To 457 cm (15 ft) TL ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands ( Savinykh 1998); northern Vancouver Island (49°53.12’N, 128°09.50’W), British Columbia (Luke Halpin, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Valdivia, Chile ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2015), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Oceanic; depth: surface to 2,878 m (9,442 ft) (Collette et al. 2011).