Black Marlin
Istiompax indica
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: DD - Data Deficient - not enough data to assess extinction risk
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Istiophoridae
- Genus
- Istiompax
Where to Find
Found in 23 diving areas across 15 countries and 4 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 44 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 296 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 67 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 3 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 1 records
- Phoenix Islands, Kiribati - 1 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 9 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 71 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 4 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 16 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 3 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 4 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 2 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 4 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 8 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 30 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 6 records