indicus, Tetrapturus Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1832:286 [Histoire naturelle des poissons; ref. 1000] Sumatra, Indonesia. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot & Blanc 1961:377 [ref. 20733], Blanc & Bauchot 1964:458 [ref. 20804]. Based on a Bank's drawing. •Tentatively valid as Istiompax indicus (Cuvier 1832) -- (Collette et al. 2006:465 [ref. 28911]). •Valid as Istiompax indicus (Cuvier 1832) -- (Fricke et al. 2009:113 [ref. 30213]). •Valid as Makaira indica (Cuvier 1832) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:303 [ref. 7348], Nakamura 1983:334 [ref. 5371], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:276 [ref. 9277], Nakamura in Masuda et al. 1984:223 [ref. 6441], Nakamura 1985:27 [ref. 20161], Heemstra 1986:840 [ref. 5660], Allen & Swainston 1988:142 [ref. 25477], Pequeño 1989:67 [ref. 14125], Paulin et al. 1989:233 [ref. 24556], Winterbottom et al. 1989:66 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:441 [ref. 15987], Nakamura 1990:1001 [ref. 19483], Gomon et al. 1994:830 [ref. 22532], Allen & Robertson 1994:278 [ref. 22193], Goren & Dor 1994:70 [ref. 25356], Nakamura in Fischer et al. 1995:1190 [ref. 22829], Randall 1995:377 [ref. 22896], Fierstine & Voigt 1996:148 [ref. 22401], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:525 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:230 [ref. 23977], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:595 [ref. 24023], Randall et al. 1997:441 [ref. 25919], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:108 [ref. 24555], Fricke 1999:561 [ref. 24106], Johnson 1999:751 [ref. 25471], Randall & Lim in Randall & Lim 2000:643 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1332 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:476 [ref. 25191], Hutchins 2001:46 [ref. 25847], Nakamura 2001:3764 [ref. 26306], Nakabo 2002:1332 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:423, 676 [ref. 26218] dated 1831, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S121 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:648 [ref. 27495] dated 1831, Parin 2003:S27 [ref. 28536], Lobel & Lobel 2004:77 [ref. 27576] dated 1831, Randall et al. 2004:31 [ref. 27624], Nelson et al. 2004:177 [ref. 27807], Heemstra et al. 2004:3331 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:426 [ref. 28072], Love et al. 2005:169 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:508 [ref. 28379], Bray et al. 2006:1780 [ref. 29091], Gomon 2008:793 [ref. 30616], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:195 [ref. 30957], Larson et al. 2013:220 [ref. 32988], Hoschke et al. 2019:160 [ref. 36626]). •Valid as Istiompax indica (Cuvier 1832) -- (Page et al. 2013:182 [ref. 32708], Palacios-Salgado et al. 2014:237 [ref. 36362], Parin et al. 2014:517 [ref. 33547], Psomadakis et al. 2015:318 [ref. 34104], Roberts 2015:1641 [ref. 34193], Fourriére et al. 2016:459 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:611 [ref. 34923], Koeda et al. 2016:107 [ref. 35333], Kells et al. 2016:320 [ref. 35888], Fricke et al. 2018:365 [ref. 35805], Brown et al. 2019:170 [ref. 36444], Eagderi et al. 2019:71 [ref. 37020], Collette & Graves 2019:289 [ref. 37341], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 17 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:185 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:575 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:110 [ref. 37637], Kovačić et al. 2021:48 [ref. 39014], Love et al. 2021:213 [ref. 39279], Michailidis et al. 2021:646 [ref. 38798], Collette 2022:293 [ref. 40167], Fermon et al. 2022:236 [ref. 39448], Grove et al. 2022:19 [ref. 41326], Page et al. 2023:128 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:226 [ref. 40816]). Current status: Valid as Istiompax indica (Cuvier 1832). Istiophoridae. Distribution: Tropical and temperate Indo-Pacific (including Persian Gulf, Sea of Japan, Gulf of California/Mexico), straying into eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. Habitat: marine.