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Taxon: Species Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, 1758 - swordfish (fish)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Actinopteri - (Order) Carangiformes - (Family) Xiphiidae

Original position

Xiphias (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758

Current position

Xiphias (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758

Ref: I.V. Volvenko et al., 2020: 48; Volvenko2020.

Historical positions

*Xiphias* (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 434.
*Xiphias* (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: N. Bailly et al., 2001: 373.
*Xiphias* (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: R.A. Fritzsche, 1982: 937; 890.
*Xiphias* (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 248. [new taxon]

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