Tetrapturus georgii Lowe, 1841

Fermon, Yves, Bailly, Nicolas, Cardiec, Floriane, Causse, Romain, Chartrain, Emmanuel, Chirio, Laurent, Bruyne, Godefroy De, Deynat, Pascal, Hopkins, Carl D., Lamboj, Anton, Mennesson, Marion I., Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve, Paugy, Didier, Sidlauskas, Brian, Sullivan, John P., Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De, Vigliotta, Thomas R. & Zee, Jouke Van Der, 2022, An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon, Cybium 46 (2), pp. 2-3 : 236

Tetrapturus georgii Lowe, 1841

Occurrence: possible

Maximum length: 184 FL

Water type: marine

Environment: pelagic-oceanic

Depth range: 0-200 m

Migration: oceanodromous

IUCN status: DD – Data deficient (2011)

Source: bibliography

Distribution and remarks: East Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea: originally described from Madeira, Sicily ( Italy), Strait of Gibraltar, and the adjacent Atlantic Ocean off southern Portugal. Can be expected to range widely in the eastern and perhaps central North Atlantic. Highly migratory species, Annex I of the 1982 UNCLOS.