Image: Billfish vertebrae
Part of the Black Marlin skeleton in the Australian Museum Skeleton Gallery (AMS I.38913-001). A finger-like process extending from each vertebra overlaps the vertebra on the left leading to a stiffening of the vertebral column.
- Photographer:
- Mark McGrouther
- Rights:
- © Australian Museum
- Common name:
- Black Marlin
- Scientific name:
- Makaira indica
- Family:
- Istiophoridae
- Order:
- Perciformes
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Tags Fishes, Ichthyology, Billfish, vertebrae, Black Marlin, Makaira indica,
