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Xiphias gladius

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: ACTINOPTERYGII
Order: PERCIFORMES
Family: XIPHIIDAE
Scientific Name: Xiphias gladius
Species Authority: Linnaeus, 1758
Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:

See Xiphias gladius (North Atlantic stock)

Common Name/s: SWORDFISH (Eng)

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria: DD    ver 2.3 (1994)
Year Assessed: 1996
Annotations: Needs updating
Assessor/s: Safina, C.

Geographic Range

Countries: Native:

Albania; Algeria; American Samoa; Angola; Argentina; Aruba; Australia; Bangladesh; Belize; Benin; Brazil; British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago); Bulgaria; Cameroon; Canada (British Columbia); Cape Verde; Chile (Juan Fernández Is.); China; Colombia; Comoros; Cook Islands; Costa Rica; Cuba; Cyprus; Côte d'Ivoire; Denmark; Djibouti; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; Eritrea; Estonia; Fiji; France; French Guiana; French Polynesia (Marquesas); Gabon; Georgia; Germany; Ghana; Greece; Grenada; Guam; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Honduras; Iceland; India; Indonesia; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Jamaica; Japan; Kenya; Kiribati; Korea, Republic of; Latvia; Lebanon; Liberia; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Lithuania; Madagascar; Maldives; Malta; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mexico; Micronesia, Federated States of; Monaco; Montenegro; Morocco; Mozambique; Myanmar; Namibia; Netherlands; Netherlands Antilles (Curaçao); New Caledonia; New Zealand; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Niue; Norway; Oman; Pakistan; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Peru; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Russian Federation; Réunion; Saint Helena; Samoa; Senegal; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Slovenia; Solomon Islands; Somalia; South Africa; Spain (Canary Is.); Sri Lanka; Sudan; Suriname; Sweden; Syrian Arab Republic; Taiwan, Province of China; Tanzania, United Republic of; Togo; Tokelau; Tonga; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; Turkey; Tuvalu; Ukraine; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; United States (Hawaiian Is.); Uruguay; Vanuatu; Venezuela; Viet Nam; Virgin Islands, U.S.; Yemen

FAO Marine Fishing Areas: Native:

Atlantic-eastern central; Atlantic-northeast; Atlantic-northwest; Atlantic-western central; Mediterranean and Black Sea; Pacific-eastern central; Pacific-northwest; Pacific-southeast; Pacific-southwest; Pacific-western central

Habitat and Ecology

System: Marine

Citation: Safina, C. 1996. Xiphias gladius. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 July 2008.
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