Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Tetrapturus angustirostris
picudo, Billfish
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Carangiformes
Family
Istiophoridae
Genus
Tetrapturus
Species
angustirostris
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Pseudohistiophorus angustirostris (Tanaka, 1915), Pseudohistiophorus illingworthi (Jordan & Evermann, 1926), Tetrapterus angustirostris Tanaka, 1915 (misspelling), Tetrapturus illingworthi Jordan & Evermann, 1926, Tetrapturus kraussi Jordan & Evermann, 1926 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
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- Froese, R. D. Pauly. Eds. (2021) FishBase World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org,
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2023-1. Https://www.iucnredlist.org
- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 Https://www.iucnredlist.org
- McCosker, J.E. Rosenblatt, R.H. (2010) The fishes of the Galápagos Archipelago: an update. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sc., Ser. 4, vol. 61, Suppl. II, no. 11: 167-195.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Tetrapturus angustirostris", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=14627. Accessed 6 November 2026.