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. In the past, the black marlin was also included in this genus, but today it is placed in its own genus, Istiompax.
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. In the past, the black marlin was also included in this genus, but today it is placed in its own genus, Istiompax.
==Species== Makaira nigricans Lacepède, 1802 (Atlantic blue marlin) Makaira mazara (Jordan & Snyder, 1901) (Indo-Pacific blue marlin)
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).