Makaira nigricans Lacepède, 1802 .

Blue Marlin. To 5 m (16.4 ft) TL (Heemstra in Smith and Heemstra 1986). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Sea of Japan, and off southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); at least San Clemente and Santa Catalina Islands, southern California (Pete Thomas, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Mejillones, Chile (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including southernmost Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Oceanic; depth: near surface to 600 m (1,968 ft) (Hoolihan et al. 2009).