Swordfish
Xiphias gladius
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: NT - Near Threatened - close to qualifying for a threatened category in the near future
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Xiphiidae
- Genus
- Xiphias
Where to Find
Found in 73 diving areas across 47 countries and 9 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 1 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 2 records
- South Australia, Australia - 3 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 181 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 114 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 9 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 1 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 58 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 1 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 1466 records
- Eleuthera & Harbour Island, Bahamas - 1 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 1 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 9 records
- Klein Bonaire, Bonaire - 3 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 46 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 5 records
- Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands - 24 records
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands - 1 records
- Isla de la Juventud, Cuba - 1 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 4 records
- María la Gorda, Cuba - 11 records
- Varadero, Cuba - 51 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 23 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 3 records
- Soufriere-Scotts Head Marine Reserve, Dominica - 2 records
- Bayahibe & La Romana, Dominican Republic - 56 records
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - 65 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 4 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 2 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 16 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 37 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 298 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 112 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 11 records
- Providenciales, Turks & Caicos - 3 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 270 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 37 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 1 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 472 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 30 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 1 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 4 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 4 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 6 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 20 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 27 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 57 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 1 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 4 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- Kornati Islands, Croatia - 130 records
- Vis & Biševo, Croatia - 130 records
- Corsica, France - 1 records
- South Coast, Ireland - 2 records
- West Coast, Ireland - 4 records
- Naples & Campania, Italy - 4 records
- Gozo, Malta - 7 records
- Al Hoceima, Morocco - 1 records
- Azores, Portugal - 19 records
- Baltic Coast, Sweden - 1 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 1 records
- Cozumel, Mexico - 14 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 10 records
- Hawaii, United States - 142 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 36 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 4 records