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MARLIN fishes of the genus Makaria Lacépède, 1803, occur throughout almost all tropical and temperate seas, and are of interest not only to the scientist but are also the prime quarry of the big-game angler. The systematics of these large wide-ranging fishes is troublesome, since few scientists can hope to examine an adequate series of fishes from over a wide area, and the number of species accepted by workers varies from three to the patently unacceptable sixteen of Jordan and Evermann (1926).
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SMITH, J. The Striped Marlin (Makaira audax Phillipi) in South Africa. Nature 177, 758 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177758a0
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