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A marlin features prominently in the last chapter and climactic scenes of Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children. Sam's friend Saul gives Sam a marlin, and Sam makes his children help him render the fish's fat. The Miami Marlins, a professional baseball team based in Miami, Florida, is named after the fish.
Makaira (Latin via Greek: μαχαίρα "sword") is a genus of marlin in the family Istiophoridae. It includes the Atlantic blue and Indo-Pacific blue marlins. [ 2 ] In the past, the black marlin was also included in this genus, but today it is placed in its own genus, Istiompax .
The classification of the Atlantic blue marlin (M. nigricans) and the Indo-Pacific blue marlin (M. mazara) as separate species is under debate. Genetic data suggest, although the two groups are isolated from each other, they are both the same species, with the only genetic exchange occurring when Indo-Pacific blue marlin migrate to and ...
The blue marlin of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are more widely pursued by sport fishermen than any other marlin species. Their wide distribution in tropical oceanic waters and seasonally into temperate zones makes them available to many anglers, and their potential to reach great sizes and spectacular fighting ability makes them a highly desired catch to some anglers.
The minimum number of test cases is the number of classes in the classification with the most containing classes. In the second step, test cases are composed by selecting exactly one class from every classification of the classification tree. The selection of test cases originally [3] was a manual task to be performed by the test engineer.
The shortbill spearfish (Tetrapturus angustirostris), sometimes called the short-nosed spearfish, is a species of marlin native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with occasional records from the Atlantic Ocean. This species occurs in open waters not far from the surface.
A computerized classification test (CCT) refers to a Performance Appraisal System that is administered by computer for the purpose of classifying examinees. The most common CCT is a mastery test where the test classifies examinees as "Pass" or "Fail," but the term also includes tests that classify examinees into more than two categories.
An updated classification by Söderström et al. 2016 [4] Cephaloziineae Schljakov [Jamesoniellineae] Adelanthaceae Grolle 1972 [Jamesoniellaceae He-Nygrén et al. 2006] Anastrophyllaceae Söderström et al. 2010b; Cephaloziaceae Migula 1904; Cephaloziellaceae Douin 1920 [Phycolepidoziaceae Schuster 1967] Lophoziaceae Cavers 1910