Broadbill Swordfish

Tracy: Xiphias gladius (swordfish) - awesome!

Tracy: Xiphias gladius (swordfish) - awesome! Jon: Xiphias gladius posterior, you can see the large caudal keels

Item Type: Video Title: Swordfish Species: Xiphias gladius Behaviour: Swimming Site: Indian -- Indian Ocean -- Enfield Site Description: Midwater Depth (m): 580 Latitude: 18 deg 30' 00" S Longitude: 115 deg 30' 00" E Countries: Australia -- Western Australia Habitat: Tropical Water Column Rig: Jack Bates Enfield Project Partners: Transocean, Woodside, Subsea 7 ROV: Clansman 2 Deposited By: Rob Curry Deposited On: 13 March 2007

Skeleton of Tetrapturus imperator. From lithograph in Agassis's Poissons Fossiles

Swordfish (Adult). Ziphias gladius, L.

Swordfish (Yount). Xiphias gladius, L.

Sword-Fish, Xiphias gladius. Drawing by H. L. Todd, from Specimen taken on the coast of Rhode Island, now stuffed and preserved in the National Museum. Length, 8 feet 4 inches

Skeleton of the Sword-Fish, Xiphias gladius. From the somewhat imperfect speciment in the National Museum

Young Swordfish, Xiphias gladius (Linnaeus).

Swordfish, Xiphias gladius (Linnaeus).

Swordfish--Adult (Xiphias gladius Linnaeus).

Xiphias gladius.

Xiphias gladius, young.

Sword-fish (Xlphias gladius).