Satellite telemetry reveals physical processes driving billfish behavior

Table 1 Billfish taxonomy and pop-up satellite tagging effort to-date

Family	Scientific name	Common name	Species code	Ocean	PSATs deployed
Xiphiidae
	Xiphias gladius	Swordfish	SWO	Global	253 (23.4%)
Istiophoridae
	Makaira nigricans	Blue marlin	BUM	Global	227 (21.0%)
	Kajikia albida	White marlin	WHM	Atlantic	118 (10.9%)
	Kajikia audax	Striped marlin	MLS	Indo-Pacific	275 (25.4%)
	Istiophorus platypterus	Sailfish	SAI	Global	133 (12.3%)
	Istiompax indica	Black marlin	BLM	Indo-Pacific	74 (6.8%)
	Tetrapturus angustirostris	Shortbill spearfish	SSP	Indo-Pacific	0
	Tetrapturus belone	Mediterranean spearfish	MSP	Med	0
	Tetrapturus georgii	Roundscale spearfish	RSP	Atlantic	0
	Tetrapturus pfluegeri	Longbill spearfish	SPF	Atlantic	2 (0.2%)

Current billfish taxonomy [12] and the total number (and percent of total) of pop-up satellite archival transmitting (PSAT) tags deployed on each species and synthesized in this paper (see Table 2 for details on each tagging study).

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