Tetrapturus belone Rafinesque, 1810
Synonyms:
Istiophorus gladius: Ben-Tuvia, 1953 (misidentification).
Tetrapturus belone Rafinesque, 1810, Caratt. Gen. Spec. Sicil., 54-55, pl. 1 (fig. 1) (orig. description; type locality: Sicily). Neotype based on a 1268 mm specimen from Sicily, USNM no. 196527 design. by Robins and de Sylva, 1963.
Skeponopodus typus Nardo, 1833, Isis (Oken), XXV1(4): 416-419 (type locality: Adriatic Sea).
Tetrapterurus belone: Bonaparte, 1841, 3 (1): 19 (emended orthographic spelling of Tetrrapturus Rafinesque).
Tetrapterus belone: Agassiz, 1843, 5: 7, 89-90, table E (emended spelling).
Histiophorus belone: Günther, 1860, 2: 513.
Scheponopodus prototypus Canestrini, 1872, Fauna Italia, (3): 112 (type locality: Italy; variation of spelling of Skeponopodus Nardo, 1833).
Histiophorus (Tetrapturus) belone: Lütken, 1876a, 5: 60-63, pl. 3 (Tetrapturus a subgenus of Histiophorus).
Tetrapturus imperator (nec Schneider, 1801): Goode, 1883: 306 307 (T. belone erroneously placed in synonymy of T. imperator Schneider, a synonym of and based upon a drawing of Xiphias gladius, copied from Aldrovandi).
Istiophorus gladius (nec Bloch): Ben-Tuvia, 1953, (8): 18-19, fig. 12 (based on a juvenile, 324 mm long, from near Haifa Bay [Ben-Tuvia, 1966]).
Tetrapturus beloni (sic) Briggs, 1958, 2 (8): 287 (based on T. belone Rafinesque, 1810, erroneously listed from Florida).
Makaira belone: Tortonese, 1958, 97 (4): 330.
Tetrapturus belone: Robins and de Sylva, 1963, 13 (1): 84122 (redescription and designation of a neotype).
Common names:
aguglia imperiale [Italy]
aguglia pelerana [Italy]
iglan [former Yugoslavia]
marlin de Méditerranée [France and Belgium]
marlin [Spain]
mediterranean spearfish [UK and USA]
pastardella [Malta]